Inspirational Quotes
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
I light my candle from their torches.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
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.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
The book you don't read cant help.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
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.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
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.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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''.
Talkers are no good doers.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Do what you love and the money will follow
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.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
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.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
After your jump, the net appears.
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.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
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.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
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.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !