Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Our love is here to stay.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.vivekanand.com http : www.indies.co.in
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Would you like to come in ?
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
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.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
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.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
You talkin to me ?
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Love is letting go of fear.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Ability is sexless.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Listen, I have an update from Taako Central. I've updated my list of people I trust and things I believe to no one and nothing ! Not a joke, I don't trust you, half-pint, I don't trust Jeff from Today's Special, I don't trust Barold whatever-his-name - nobody, I trust nobody.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Sanctuary !
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Help me ! Help me !
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.