Inspirational Quotes
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Let thy words be few.
Attitude is everything.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
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.
Live life to the fullest.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
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.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
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.
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.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Seize the day.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Love sees roses without thorns.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
There is no education like adversity.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Faith can move mountains.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
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.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Think and grow rich.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
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.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.