One lie ruins a thousand truths.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
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.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
There is no education like adversity.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
He who has hope has everything.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
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.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Never, never, never give up.
Be all you can be.
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.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
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.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
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.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Great men are not always wise.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
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.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Every artist was first an amateur.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Every human heart is human.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !