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.
x 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.
. 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.
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober: not always, but most of the time.
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.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.
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 age over the man who is trying to remember his lies!
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.
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
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.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
If you can't return a favour, pass it on.
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
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.
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
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.