Inspirational Quotes
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Don't water your weeds.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
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.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Fortune favors the brave.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
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. '
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Old love does not rust.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
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.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
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.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
You can do what you want to do.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".