Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Ability is sexless.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Experience is the best teacher.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
It's always too soon to quit !
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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.
Fortune favors the brave.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
I think therefore I am
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
The book you don't read cant help.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
When asked about clinching a playoff berth for Cleveland Browns during the 2023 NFL regular season - "You don't know how many of these moments you're going to get. Not too many people get the opportunity to have kids as old as mine and that understand what's going on - get to witness this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life. And anything that you get to do with people that you love, especially your children, they just make everything that much more special."
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
The best way out is always through.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.