The best way to predict the future is to create it.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
You are what you think you are.
No involvement, no commitment.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Grow deep - not just tall.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
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?
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Every artist was first an amateur.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Roll with the punches.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
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.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.