Inspirational Quotes
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Live your life and forget your age.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
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.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
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.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
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.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
The world belongs to the energetic.
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.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Security is a kind of death.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
No one became poor by giving alms.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
We will either find a way or make one.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Reach for the stars.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
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.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.