Inspirational Quotes
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
It's always too soon to quit !
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
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.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
There are no gains without pains.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
I think therefore I am
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
You must motivate yourself every day.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
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.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
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.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
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'.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
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.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.