Inspirational Quotes
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Don't ever give up.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
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.
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.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
You only get out what you put in.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
We have not yet begun to fight.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
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.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
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.
Let's roll.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
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.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.