An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Hunker down.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
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
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
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.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Practice makes perfect.
Live your life and forget your age.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
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.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
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.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Where there's life, there's hope.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
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.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
There is time for everything.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Never stop dreaming.
I am the captain of my soul.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
My life is my message.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.