Inspirational Quotes
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Slow but steady wins the race.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
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?
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
You can do what you want to do.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Well done is better than well said.
Old love does not rust.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.