If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
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.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
The ready back gets all the loads.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Attitude determines altitude.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
The best way out is always through.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Children are all foreigners.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Know thyself.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
No involvement, no commitment.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.