There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
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.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
To go fast, row slowly.
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.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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."
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
They can because they think they can.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
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.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
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.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Be the best that you can be.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Don't ever give up.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
There is time for everything.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.