Inspirational Quotes
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
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.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Without a general an army is lost.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Success is never wondering what if.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
The show must go on.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
High expectations are the key to everything.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.