Inspirational Quotes
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.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
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.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
There is no education like adversity.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
No one became poor by giving alms.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
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.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Follow your dreams.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
The unexamined life is not worth living.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
This too, shall pass.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Don't fear, just live right.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.