Inspirational Quotes
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Do it now !
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Find the good -- and praise it.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
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.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
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.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
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.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
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 was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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 accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Don't ever give up.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
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.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
One man with courage is a majority.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
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) .
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Be all you can be.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
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.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
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.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Whatever you are be a good one.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
My life is my message.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.