The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
For with god all things are possible.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
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.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Ideas... they have the power
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Anything is possible.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Actions speak louder than words.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Children are all foreigners.