Inspirational Quotes
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Live life to the fullest.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
It's always too soon to quit !
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
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.
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.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
You only get out what you put in.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
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.
Live life with passion.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
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.
Never stop dreaming.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.