First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Great men are not always wise.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
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.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
The show must go on.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop