Lawrence LeShan
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Discover More Quotes From Your Favorite Authors
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Love is letting go of fear.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Change comes from within.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
Don't ever give up.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Forget about it.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Count your blessings.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Well, nobody's perfect.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Every dog has his day.
I want to be alone.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
I am your number one fan.
Vegas, baby.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire 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
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Kind words conquer.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
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.'
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
One man with courage is a majority.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
Better late than never.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.