Alfred Adler
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
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Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
My heart is ever at your service.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Love is the whole and more than all.
He who has hope has everything.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Forget about it.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Happiness is a choice.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Life is change ; growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Don't fear, just live right.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
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.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Don't quit.
Life is what you make it.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
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.