Inspirational Quotes
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Faith can move mountains.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
He who hesitates is lost !
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Only the educated are free.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Be Here Now.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
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.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
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.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Keep the Faith.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
No pain, No gain.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
What ever you are be a good one.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.