All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
One man with courage is a majority.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
It is always your next move.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Do or do not, there is no try.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
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.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Know thyself.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
You only get out what you put in.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Never stop dreaming.
The best things in life are not things.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.