Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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 land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
You only get out what you put in.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
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.
The ready back gets all the loads.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Life is what you make it.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Laughter is the best medicine.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Keep the Faith.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
They alone live, who live for others.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Pep without purpose is piffle.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
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.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
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.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.