Inspirational Quotes
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Those who laugh - last!!
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
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.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
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.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Security is a kind of death.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Whatever it takes !
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
None are homely who smile.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Change comes from within.
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.
Imagination is more important than 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.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
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.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
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.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.