No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
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 ?
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Our intentions create our reality.
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.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
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.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
He who hesitates is lost.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Live life with passion.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
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.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.