Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
What ever you are be a good one.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
You create your reality.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
If you would create something, you must be something.
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.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Never Quit.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Our intentions create our reality.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
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.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Never complain about what you permit.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
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.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Keep the Faith.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.