Robert Collier
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
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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.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Remove failure as an option.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Be all you can be.
All mankind love a lover.
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.
My heart shall be thy garden.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Life is what you make it.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
The road to success is always under construction.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
The best way out is always through.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Life is change ; growth is optional. Choose wisely.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
What ever you are be a good one.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
I think we deserve a break.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
They can because they think they can.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.