Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
The book you don't read cant help.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Talkers are no good doers.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
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.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
It's always too soon to quit !
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
The best way out is always through.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.