There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Whatever you are be a good one.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
If there is a will, there is a way.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
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.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
They can because they think they can.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Fortune favors the brave.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
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.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Truth fears no questions.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
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.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The best way out is always through.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.