Inspirational Quotes
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
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.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
You become what you think about.
Grow deep - not just tall.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
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.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Don't quit.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Life is what you make it.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
You only get out what you put in.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
There is no substitute for hard work.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.