There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
They can because they think they can.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Be the best that you can be.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Let thy words be few.
In love beggar and king are equal.
It is always your next move.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
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.
If you would create something, you must be something.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
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
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Don't fear, just live right.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.