Inspirational Quotes
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
You only get out what you put in.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
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.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
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.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
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.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
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.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
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.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
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.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Carpe diem.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.