A leader is a dealer in hope.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Keep away from 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.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Don't ever give up.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Believe in yourself.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
He who has hope has everything.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
God doesn't make junk.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Let thy words be few.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
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We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
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.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
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.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.