Inspirational Quotes
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
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 ?
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
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.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Truth fears no questions.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Well done is better than well said.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
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.
Faith can move mountains.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
I light my candle from their torches.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Be the best that you can be.
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.