Inspirational Quotes
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
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.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
He who has hope has everything.
Attitude determines altitude.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
The time is always right to do what is right.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
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.
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.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
There is no education like adversity.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
There are no gains without pains.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
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.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
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
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.