Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
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.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
There is no substitute for hard work.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
It is always your next move.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
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.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
The best things in life are not things.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
A bold onset is half the battle.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The show must go on.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Ideas... they have the power
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
You must motivate yourself every day.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.