How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Keep the Faith.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
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.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Action is the antidote to despair.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Hope springs eternal.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
If you can dream it, you can do it.
He who stops being better stops being good.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
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.
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.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Never, never, never give up.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.