Nelson Mandela
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that 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.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Can you dig it ?
Hunker down.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
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.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
If there is a will, there is a way.
The best way out is always through.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
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.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Success is predictable.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Love is the only rational act.
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.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Would you like to come in ?
The book you don't read cant help.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Don't quit.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.