Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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'.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
I am the captain of my soul.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Life is what you make it.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Well done is better than well said.
When asked about clinching a playoff berth for Cleveland Browns during the 2023 NFL regular season - "You don't know how many of these moments you're going to get. Not too many people get the opportunity to have kids as old as mine and that understand what's going on - get to witness this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life. And anything that you get to do with people that you love, especially your children, they just make everything that much more special."
The best things in life are not things.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Never say die.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
They alone live, who live for others.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.