Inspirational Quotes
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
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.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
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.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
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.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
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.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
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
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
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.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.