You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
For with god all things are possible.
What ever you are be a good one.
Live with passion !
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Never say more than is necessary.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
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.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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 money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Never Quit.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
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.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
I light my candle from their torches.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
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.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.