If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
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.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
The time is always right to do what is right.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
May you live all the days of your life.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
One man with courage is a majority.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Fortune favors the brave.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Success is the child of audacity.