Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Seize the day.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Ability is sexless.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Every artist was first an amateur.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
They alone live, who live for others.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Let's roll.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Actions speak louder than words.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Experience is the best teacher.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Carpe diem.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
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.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
My life is my message.
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.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
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.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Strike while the iron is hot.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Never, never, never give up.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.