Inspirational Quotes
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Success leaves clues.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Talkers are no good doers.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Practice makes perfect.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Action is the antidote to despair.
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.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
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.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
You can do what you want to do.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.