Inspirational Quotes
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
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.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Do it now !
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
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.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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.
Practice makes perfect.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
If there is a will, there is a way.
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.
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.
Live your dreams.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Count your blessings.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
The best things in life are not things.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Success is a journey not a destination.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
You become what you think about.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
After your jump, the net appears.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.