You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Love understands all languages.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
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.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Love conquers all.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
After your jump, the net appears.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Happiness is a state of activity.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Don't think it, ink it.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
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 problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !