Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Don't ever give up.
Be the best that you can be.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
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.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
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.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
God doesn't make junk.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
He who hesitates is lost.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Life is what you make it.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
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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.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Don't fear, just live right.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.