There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
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.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Live your life and forget your age.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Every human heart is human.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Count your blessings.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Action is the antidote to despair.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Seize the day.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
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 can dream it, you can do it.
I light my candle from their torches.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Well done is better than well said.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Every dog has his day.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Nothing succeeds like success.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.