Inspirational Quotes
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Never complain about what you permit.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Fortune favors the brave.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Laughter is the best medicine.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
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."
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Our intentions create our reality.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
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.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
The sun will come up tomorrow
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
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.
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.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
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.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
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.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Love understands all languages.
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 ?
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.