Life is a do-it yourself project.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Know thyself.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Success leaves clues.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
The best things in life are not things.
Things do not change we change.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Don't quit.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
To ask the hard question is simple.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
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.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Never say die.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Truth fears no questions.
Never, never, never give up.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
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.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !