Inspirational Quotes
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Never spend your money before you have it.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
It ain't over till it's over.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
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.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
You're as old as you behave.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Whatever it takes !
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
I light my candle from their torches.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
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.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Do it now !
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Fortune favors the brave.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.