Inspirational Quotes
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
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.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
To go fast, row slowly.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
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's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
You become what you think about.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
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.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Those who laugh - last!!
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
No one became poor by giving alms.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
The buck stops here.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Life is what you make it.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Strike while the iron is hot.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.