Inspirational Quotes
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Success leaves clues.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Children are all foreigners.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Live life with passion.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
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.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
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
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
You become what you think about.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Ideas without action are worthless.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
You're as old as you behave.