Inspirational Quotes
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
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.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
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.
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.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
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.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
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.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
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.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Be all you can be.
Life is what you make it.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
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
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
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.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
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.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.