Inspirational Quotes
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
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.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
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.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
He who hesitates is lost !
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
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.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
The ready back gets all the loads.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
God doesn't make junk.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.