Inspirational Quotes
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Let thy words be few.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
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.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
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.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Faith can move mountains.
Carpe diem.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
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.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
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.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
I light my candle from their torches.
Security is a kind of death.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.