Inspirational Quotes
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Never, never, never give up.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
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 ?
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
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.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Love understands all languages.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Roll with the punches.
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.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Never Quit.
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.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
For with god all things are possible.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.