Inspirational Quotes
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Well done is better than well said.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
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.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
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.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
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.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Carpe diem.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
You must motivate yourself every day.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Seize the day.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
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 midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Better late than never.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Love conquers all.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
There is no education like adversity.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Let's roll.