It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
The book you don't read cant help.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
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.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Actions speak louder than words.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
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.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
The past does not equal the future.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
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.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I am the captain of my soul.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
There is time for everything.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
He who hesitates is lost.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
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.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Live with passion !
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Ability is sexless.
The best way out is always through.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
The best things in life are free.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.