This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
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.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
May you live all the days of your life.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
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.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Be all you can be.
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.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Adventure is worthwhile.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.