Inspirational Quotes
Begin with the end in mind.
May you live all the days of your life.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
They can because they think they can.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
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.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Success is never wondering what if.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
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.
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.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
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.
Don't go through life, grow through life.