Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Well done is better than well said.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
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.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
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.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Don't fear, just live right.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
The show must go on.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
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."
Live with passion !
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.