Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
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.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Love conquers all.
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.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Seize the day.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Grow deep - not just tall.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
To ask the hard question is simple.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
You are what you think you are.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
In love beggar and king are equal.
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.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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.
There is no education like adversity.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.