To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
You only get out what you put in.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
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) .
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Success is predictable.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Better late than never.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
It ain't over till it's over.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Do or do not, there is no try.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Ability is sexless.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Hope springs eternal.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.