Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Be all you can be.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Love sees roses without thorns.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Happiness is a state of mind.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
You are what you think you are.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Our intentions create our reality.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Believe in yourself.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
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 !
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.