Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
There is no education like adversity.
No pain, No gain.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Follow your dreams.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
He who has hope has everything.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
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.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
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.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
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.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Talkers are no good doers.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
The road to success is always under construction.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
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.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.