Inspirational Quotes
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
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.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Success is predictable.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
It's always too soon to quit !
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.