Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Actions speak louder than words.
Don't ever give up.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
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.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Success leaves clues.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Roll with the punches.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
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.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
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.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Find the good -- and praise it.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
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.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
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''.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.