Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
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.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Experience is the best teacher.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Every human heart is human.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
You can observe a lot just by watching.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
The world belongs to the energetic.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
He who hesitates is lost !
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Happiness is a choice.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
For with god all things are possible.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
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.
Be who you are in every situation.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Every dog has his day.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
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.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Truth fears no questions.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.