The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Our intentions create our reality.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
If you wanna call me that, smile.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
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.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Remove failure as an option.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
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.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
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.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
This is this.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.