Inspirational Quotes
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
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.
Don't quit.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Carpe diem.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
It ain't over till it's over.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
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.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
You can do what you want to do.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
They alone live, who live for others.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
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.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
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.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Children are all foreigners.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.