Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Be Here Now.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
High expectations are the key to everything.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
He who hesitates is lost.
Hope springs eternal.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Strike while the iron is hot.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
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.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
We will either find a way or make one.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
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.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Success is never wondering what if.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease