Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
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.
The best things in life are free.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Success is predictable.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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.
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.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
For with god all things are possible.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
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.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
They are able because they think they are able.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.