The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
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.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
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.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
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.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Live life to the fullest.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
The past does not equal the future.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Never Quit.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
No involvement, no commitment.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Kindness is always fashionable.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
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.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.