If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
When asked about clinching a playoff berth for Cleveland Browns during the 2023 NFL regular season - "You don't know how many of these moments you're going to get. Not too many people get the opportunity to have kids as old as mine and that understand what's going on - get to witness this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life. And anything that you get to do with people that you love, especially your children, they just make everything that much more special."
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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.
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'.
Love conquers all.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Attitude determines altitude.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Procrastination is the thief of time.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
How far you go in life depends on you 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.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.