Inspirational Quotes
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
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.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
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.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Hunker down.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
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.
Don't fear, just live right.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Success is predictable.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
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.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Fortune favors the brave.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Change comes from within.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
You're as old as you behave.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.