Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
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.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
There is time for everything.
Reach for the stars.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
He who has hope has everything.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Be Here Now.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
You become what you think about.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Live life with passion.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Find the good -- and praise it.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Never complain about what you permit.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.