Inspirational Quotes
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
It's always too soon to quit !
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
I light my candle from their torches.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Success is the child of audacity.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
If you would create something, you must be something.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Think and grow rich.
No involvement, no commitment.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Attitude determines altitude.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Live your dreams.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.