The beginning is the half of every action.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
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.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Tough times never last but tough people do.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Remove failure as an option.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Don't ever give up.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Let's roll.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
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.
Never say die.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
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 never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Do what you love and the money will follow
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.