The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
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.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
The show must go on.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
To ask the hard question is simple.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
It ain't over till it's over.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Hunker down.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Let's roll.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Do what you love and the money will follow
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Better late than never.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
No one became poor by giving alms.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.