The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
The sun will come up tomorrow
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
All work is empty save when there is love.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
No one became poor by giving alms.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Happiness is a choice.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
God doesn't make junk.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
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.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Keep the Faith.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
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.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.