Inspirational Quotes
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Hard work pays off.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
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.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Better late than never.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Remove failure as an option.
You become what you think about.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
It's always too soon to quit !
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
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.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.