Inspirational Quotes
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Don't ever give up.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
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.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
The buck stops here.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
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.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
He who hesitates is lost !
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Change comes from within.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
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 ?
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
You become what you think about.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Hard work pays off.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Make the second effort your second nature.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
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.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.