If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Faith can move mountains.
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.
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.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Every artist was first an amateur.
You always succeed in producing a result.
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.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
What ever you are be a good one.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
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.
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.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
My life is my message.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.