You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Practice makes perfect.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Let thy words be few.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
He who hesitates is lost !
You can do anything you put your mind to.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
The best way out is always through.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
What ever you are be a good one.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.