My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Don't think it, ink it.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Hunker down.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
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.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
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.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Laughter is the best medicine.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
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.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
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.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
The sun will come up tomorrow
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
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.
Success is the child of audacity.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Attitude determines altitude.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Know thyself.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
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.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.