Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
No pain, No gain.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
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.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
It's never too late.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Be all you can be.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
You become what you think about.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
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.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
You can do what you want to do.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
The price of greatness is responsibility.