The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
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.
Do what you love and the money will follow
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Live life to the fullest.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Change comes from within.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Don't fear, just live right.
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.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Every dog has his day.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.