Inspirational Quotes
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
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.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
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.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
They can because they think they can.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
The road to success is always under construction.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
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.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Our intentions create our reality.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Count your blessings.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations