Inspirational Quotes
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
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.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
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.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Better late than never.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
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.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
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.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
The time is always right to do what is right.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
You can do what you want to do.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
After your jump, the net appears.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
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.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.