I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Hunker down.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
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.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
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.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Happiness is a state of activity.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
No involvement, no commitment.
Success is the child of audacity.
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.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Truth fears no questions.
Never Quit.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Fortune favors the brave.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
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.
The truth is more important than the facts.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.