The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
My friends are my estate.
Well done is better than well said.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Well done is better than well said.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The road to success is always under construction.
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 can observe a lot just by watching.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Be the best that you can be.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
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.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
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.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
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.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
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.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -