If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
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.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
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 ?
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Procrastination is the thief of time.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
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.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
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.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
They can because they think they can.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Let thy words be few.
The ready back gets all the loads.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Don't fear, just live right.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
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.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Never Quit.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.