Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Above all to thine own self be true.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
You create your reality.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Remove failure as an option.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Kind words conquer.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Obstacles are great incentives.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
What ever you are be a good one.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
High expectations are the key to everything.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
The world belongs to the energetic.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Talkers are no good doers.