Inspirational Quotes
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
There are no gains without pains.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Strike while the iron is hot.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Roll with the punches.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Better late than never.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
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.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Our intentions create our reality.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Faith can move mountains.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.