The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Success leaves clues.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
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.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
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.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Only the educated are free.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
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
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Many hands make light work.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.