Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Children are all foreigners.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
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.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
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.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
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.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
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.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Live your dreams.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
The truth is more important than the facts.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Do or do not, there is no try.
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.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
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.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
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.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Fortune favors the brave.