Inspirational Quotes
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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 person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
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.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
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.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
I am the captain of my soul.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Success is the child of audacity.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.