Inspirational Quotes
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
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.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Only the educated are free.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
What ever you are be a good one.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Don't think it, ink it.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
I am the captain of my soul.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
They can because they think they can.
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.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Embrace your inner voice.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
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.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Don't quit.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
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.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Talkers are no good doers.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.