You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Life is what you make it.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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 listener does not hear. quotes
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
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.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
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.
Love conquers all.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.