Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Practice makes perfect.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Success is the child of audacity.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
No involvement, no commitment.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
You only get out what you put in.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Begin with the end in mind.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Ideas... they have the power
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Believe in yourself.
None are homely who smile.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.