Inspirational Quotes
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
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.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize 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.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Attitude determines altitude.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
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.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
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.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Well done is better than well said.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Better late than never.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Follow your dreams.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.