Inspirational Quotes
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Do it now !
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Well done is better than well said.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
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.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Live with passion.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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.
Carpe diem.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
When asked about clinching a playoff berth for Cleveland Browns during the 2023 NFL regular season - "You don't know how many of these moments you're going to get. Not too many people get the opportunity to have kids as old as mine and that understand what's going on - get to witness this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life. And anything that you get to do with people that you love, especially your children, they just make everything that much more special."
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
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.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
I think therefore I am
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
I am the captain of my soul.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.