Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
It's never too late.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
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.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Be all you can be.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Never say more than is necessary.
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.
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.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
The best things in life are free.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
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.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Fortune favors the brave.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
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.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Have you checked the children lately ?
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
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.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Never complain about what you permit.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?