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.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Begin with the end in mind.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Our intentions create our reality.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Laughter is the best medicine.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Whatever it takes !
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
The past does not equal the future.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
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.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
One man with courage is a majority.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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.