Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Embrace your inner voice.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Remove failure as an option.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Our intentions create our reality.
My life is my message.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Children are all foreigners.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Change comes from within.
Adventure is worthwhile.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Life is what you make it.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.