Inspirational Quotes
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
The show must go on.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
The time is always right to do what is right.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Change comes from within.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Slow but steady wins the race.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Keep the Faith.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Live your dreams.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps 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.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
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.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
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.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.