Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Don't water your weeds.
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.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
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.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
The best things in life are free.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Experience is the best teacher.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Fortune favors the brave.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
No one became poor by giving alms.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
In love beggar and king are equal.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
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.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
The best things in life are not things.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.