Inspirational Quotes
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
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.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
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.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Never complain about what you permit.
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.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Remove failure as an option.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Love conquers all.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.