Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
He who has hope has everything.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
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.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
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
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
The buck stops here.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Every human heart is human.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?