Inspirational Quotes
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
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.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Whatever it takes !
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Laughter is the best medicine.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
It ain't over till it's over.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
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'.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
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.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Follow your dreams.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
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.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.