Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
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.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Better late than never.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Many hands make light work.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
It's always too soon to quit !
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
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.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of 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.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
God doesn't make junk.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Success is predictable.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
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.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Live your dreams.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
After your jump, the net appears.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
He who hesitates is lost !
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.