Inspirational Quotes
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
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.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
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.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
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.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Talkers are no good doers.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
There is time for everything.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
They alone live, who live for others.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
You only get out what you put in.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
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.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
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.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.