Inspirational Quotes
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
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.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
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."
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
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.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
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.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Hard work pays off.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.