Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
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.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
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.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Life is what you make it.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
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.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
The road to success is always under construction.
Don't water your weeds.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.