Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Love sees roses without thorns.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
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.
Security is a kind of death.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Live with passion.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
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.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Be all you can be.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.