The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Don't water your weeds.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
To go fast, row slowly.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Success is the child of audacity.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
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.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
It's never too late.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Carpe diem.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
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.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
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.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
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There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Experience is the best teacher.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.