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 don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Fortune favors the brave.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
It is always your next move.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
No one became poor by giving alms.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Do or do not, there is no try.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
For with god all things are possible.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Live with passion !
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
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.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Kindness is always fashionable.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Actions speak louder than words.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Never spend your money before you have it.