There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
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.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Follow your dreams.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Do what you love and the money will follow
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
The book you don't read cant help.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
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.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
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 ?
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
You only get out what you put in.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Keep the Faith.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
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.
Things do not change we change.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
What ever you are be a good one.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my 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.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Hard work pays off.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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.