Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
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.
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.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
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.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Know thyself.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
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.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Remove failure as an option.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Live with passion !
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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.
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.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Those who laugh - last!!
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.