There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Life is change ; growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Live your life and forget your age.
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.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The best way out is always through.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
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.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
They alone live, who live for others.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
There's no crying in baseball !
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
The buck stops here.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
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.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Give all to love.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
Happiness is a choice.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
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.
Love the giver more than the gift.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Better late than never.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action