Inspirational Quotes
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
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.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
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.
This is the beginning of a new day.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
The time is always right to do what is right.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Be all you can be.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
It ain't over till it's over.
Practice makes perfect.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.