Inspirational Quotes
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
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.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
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.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Follow your dreams.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
We will either find a way or make one.
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.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Embrace your inner voice.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.