Inspirational Quotes
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Where there's life, there's hope.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Experience is the best teacher.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
I light my candle from their torches.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Slow but steady wins the race.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
You can do what you want to do.
The buck stops here.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.