Inspirational Quotes
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
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 am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
He who stops being better stops being good.
Don't water your weeds.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
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.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Things do not change we change.
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.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
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.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
I think therefore I am
Be Here Now.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Experience is the best teacher.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.