Inspirational Quotes
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
There is no education like adversity.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
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.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Let's roll.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
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.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Reach for the stars.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Don't ever give up.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
For with god all things are possible.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Actions speak louder than words.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
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.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
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.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
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.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Happiness is a state of mind.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Never say die.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Honesty is the best image.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.