God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Success is never wondering what if.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
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.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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.
Never complain about what you permit.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Above all to thine own self be true.
It's always too soon to quit !
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Follow your dreams.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
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.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
We must be the change we wish to see.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Grow deep - not just tall.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -