Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Hard work pays off.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Don't fear, just live right.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
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.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Hunker down.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
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.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Never Quit.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Ideas... they have the power
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
He who stops being better stops being good.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Follow your dreams.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Begin with the end in mind.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.