Inspirational Quotes
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
For with god all things are possible.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Faith can move mountains.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
You must motivate yourself every day.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.