Men
do not fail; they give up trying.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
The
only way to be absolutely safe is never to tray anything for the first time.
What
is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
What's
going on in the inside shows on the outside.
Learn
to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something
outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious
is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every
minute should be enjoyed and savored.
We
all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
The
man who has nothing to boast of but his ancestry is like a potato. The only good
belonging to him is underground.
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Our
life is just like a rowing boat it some times sails smoothly, but suddenly goes
through troubled water.
If the vision is there, the mean will follow.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Idealism is like innocence. The more you live, the more you lose. However, you can do a lot more with idealism than you can innocence. Innocence is a state of mind; idealism is a state of being.
No matter how much you talk to your plant, if you don't water it, it's going to die.
Why
not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Don't
be angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, because you cannot
make yourself as you wish to be.
Kindness
in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
The
happy person is the one who finds occasions for joy at every step. He does not
have to look for them, he just finds them.
Two
men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.
Rare
is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on
the scales.
All
things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
Some
of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to
know they were impossible.
Don't
be so humble, you're not that great.
He
who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
God always provides what we need, but we must be ready to open our eyes and see it.
You're a mouse studying to be a rat.
Expect
problems and eat them for breakfast.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.
To
some extent, conformity is insanity.
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage - and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still - the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.
Bless those who challenge us to grow, to stretch, to move beyond the knowable, to come back home to our elemental and essential nature. Bless those who challenge us for they remind us of doors we have closed and doors we have yet to open.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Life's a dance you learn as you go. Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow.
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I've met.
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.
Ambition
never comes to an end.
If
we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.
You
have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could
do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your
own mind.
Challenges
are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Take
my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very
clever woman to manage a fool.
A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway of life.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
God
provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.
He who angers you conquers you.
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Doubt
yourself, and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges
everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above
doubt and judgement, and you can see forever.
Often
the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better
abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a
calculated risk-and to act.
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
If a ship has sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.
Pain
is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever,
nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.
Not
failure, but low aim, is crime.
If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
One
thorn of experience is worn a whole wilderness of warning.
Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing-taking.
A very little thing, a little worm, or hourglass-blazoned spider, it is said, Can kill a tiger.
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
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Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and
not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes.
Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too
confident.
A
problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Only
those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Hope
begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the
right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
One
never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.
The
best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength
may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.
There
will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the
beginning.
Each
time a man 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.
Few
will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to
change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be
written the history of this generation.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Life
isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
If
you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when
you grow old.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Visionary is a self-fulfilling prophet. Don't predict the future. Create it.
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
As
a man handles his troubles during the day, he goes to bed at night a General,
Captain or Private.
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who without a dream.
Security
is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
To
get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work is as
impossible as it is to live without being born.
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
When a man mints coins - they are all alike, but when God mints people, each of them is uniquely different even though they all come from the same mold.
The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.
It's OK to mess up. You should give yourself a break.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
It's
not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves.
If
I am not learning something new every day, I might as well be dead.
An
apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
All limits are self imposed.
The longest journey we ever make is to our inner world.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.
If
you got the guts to stick it out, you are going to make it.
The
more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn -- The less a man knows, the
more positive he is that he knows everything
Turning
it over in your mind won't plough the field.
Do
one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.
A
wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
A
bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies
everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age
itself.
Evil
witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand
their language.
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To solve big problems you have to be willing to do
unpopular things.
Apply
yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't
just stand there, make it happen.
In
a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of
us would have to settle for something less.
We
are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble
problems.
The
only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is
the family.
In
times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your
anger and your energy into something positive.
My
father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends,
then you've had a great life.
In
the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product,
and profits.
Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same.
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me, I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase...the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Without danger you cannot get beyond danger.
Nobody can contribute to the best of humanity who does not make the best out of himself.
All
man's gains are fruit of venturing.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
A
man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame
somebody else.
You
don't just luck into things. You build them step by step, whether it's
friendships or opportunities.
Within
each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the
marathon of life. Within each of us is a hidden store of courage. Courage to
give us the strength to face any challenge. Within each of us is a hidden store
of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.
The
proof that you’re on the right path is that living starts to become more
effortless.
It
is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Power
doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and
self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
It
is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with
them.
Some
have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
We
never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
A
good beginning makes a good end.
Don't
let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
There
are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality;
and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Truth
hurts...not the searching after, the running from.
There
are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of
leaving it behind them when they go.
Man
performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's
how he finds that he can bear anything.
Living
in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck
muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.
Knowledge
is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
It
is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious
effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow
exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their
happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their
lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.
There
is always a way to go if you look for it.
Vitality
shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Family
quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not
like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal
because there's not enough material.
By
the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die
is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
I
learned the value of hard work by working hard.
The
future of the world is in my classroom today, a future with the potential for
good or bad [...] I must be vigilant every day, lest I lose one fragile
opportunity to improve tomorrow.
Only
a teacher? Thank God I have a calling to the greatest profession of all!
The
only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar
territory.
Earth
has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
Fear
is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and
spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.
Great
work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
Life
is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though
sometimes it is hard to realize this.
The
world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is
generally interrupted by someone doing it.
If
fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Genius
is the power of lighting one's own fire.
Creative
minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
The
sense of inferiority and the sense of guilt are exceedingly difficult to
distinguish.
You
can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the
intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to
the end.
Successful
people start out in life with the same disadvantages as the rest of us. They
just find ways to turn their disadvantages into assets.
Nothing
is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
By
forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to
worry.
One
must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor complaining against the
changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
Whoever
is happy will make others happy, too. He who has courage and faith will never
perish in misery.
We
either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work
is the same.
We
are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to
happen.
There
are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter
yourself to meet them.
Nothing
in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Every
morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new
day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to
come to this day. This moment -- this day -- is as good as any moment in all
eternity. I shall make of this day -- each moment of this day -- a heaven on
earth. This is my day of opportunity.
The
winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
The
hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
There
was a little sparrow lying out on the ground with his feet up in the air.
Somebody asked him what he was doing, and he said, "The sky is going to
fall." And this person said, "What do you think you can do about
it?" And the little sparrow said, "One must do what one can."
Always
tell the truth, not only because it is the decent thing to do, but because it
gives you such an advant
A
new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed
to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
People
take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not
on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Luck
marches with those who give their very best.
Shoot
for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
Other
people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
When
you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really
such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful
motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
We've
been through so much together, and most of it was your fault.
Pray
to God, but keep rowing to shore.
The
same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel.
You
live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.
Time
is not measured by the years we live, but by the deeds we do and the joys we
give.
The
thing that destroys a person is not the knowing, but the knowing and not doing.
No
matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.
If
you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
You
always pass failure on the way to success.
No
one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The
future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The
thing that destroys a person is not the knowing, but the knowing and not doing
Don't
be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Even
if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The
more you know the less you need to say
Get
around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will
continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have
departed.
It
is not fair to ask of other what you are not willing to do yourself.
When
you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage
to stand alone and be counted.
You
have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it
with the best you have to give.
Great
minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Friendship
with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with
anyone else.
Remember
always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an
obligation to be one.
Since
you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of
thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
When
you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on!
I
think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the
bad luck of the early worm.
The
only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be
afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
In
any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst
thing you can do is nothing.
If
you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
Men
do not fail; they give up trying
Far
better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though
checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither
victory nor defeat.
I
care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think
of what I do. That is character!
Kill
one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill
everyone and you are God.
The
problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and
thinking that having problems is a problem.
No
matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.
You
find what you look for in life. If you look for the good, you will find it. If
you look for bad, you'll find that too. Choose to see the good!
The
successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the
failing person doesn’t like to do.
Perhaps
all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act,
just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in
its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
I
worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have gladly paid.
Good
management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior
people.
If
you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the
worn paths of accepted success.
I
had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I
had an ambition to build.
A
friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
There
are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
The
more you reason the less you create.
The
life of the wolf is the death of the lamb.
It's
better to recall something you wish you'd said, than something you wish you
hadn't.
Our
greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall
Most
people are afraid to take a chance for fear of failing
Success
is the sum of small efforts -- repeated day in and day out.
Your
chances in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
Life
is a buffet and only the suckers are starving.
Facing
it - always facing it - that's the way to get through. Face it!
Death
is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while
we live.