Henry Kaiser
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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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.
If you build it, he will come.
You become what you think about.
My friends are my estate.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Love is friendship set to music
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Live your dreams.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
You had me at "hello".
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Hunker down.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
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.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I don't like your manners.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
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.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
This too, shall pass.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
There are no gains without pains.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Actions speak louder than words.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
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 to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
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.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?