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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
We must be the change we wish to see.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Fortune favors the brave.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Life is what you make it.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Children are all foreigners.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
God doesn't make junk.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
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.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Anything is possible.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Whatever it takes !
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
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.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Be Here Now.
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.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up