The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
To go fast, row slowly.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
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.
Ideas... they have the power
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
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.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Things do not change we change.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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 ?
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
You must motivate yourself every day.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Fortune favors the brave.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?