What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
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.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
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.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Live your life and forget your age.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Don't quit.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
My life is my message.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.