Every hero becomes a bore at last.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Roll with the punches.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
It is always your next move.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Better late than never.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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?
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.