Inspirational Quotes
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
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.
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.
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.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Carpe diem.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Live life with passion.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Those who laugh - last!!
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.