Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Children are all foreigners.
Hard work pays off.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
They can because they think they can.
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.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Success is the child of audacity.
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.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
I am the captain of my soul.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Never, never, never give up.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Embrace your inner voice.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Action is the antidote to despair.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
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.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Every dog has his day.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Attitude is everything.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
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.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
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.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.