Inspirational Quotes
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Every human heart is human.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
May you live all the days of your life.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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.
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.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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.
Be all you can be.
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.
Change comes from within.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
It is always your next move.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Slow but steady wins the race.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Live with passion.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
There are no gains without pains.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.