A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Every dog has his day.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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 first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You create your reality.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
None are homely who smile.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
He who stops being better stops being good.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
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.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.