Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Tough times never last but tough people do.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
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.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Every dog has his day.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Success leaves clues.
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.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
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.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
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.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.