Inspirational Quotes
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
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.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
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 ?
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
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.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
The book you don't read cant help.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Change comes from within.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
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.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Hunker down.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -