Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Live your dreams.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Seize the day.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
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.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
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.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.