Inspirational Quotes

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Resist much, obey little.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

I must not fear. 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 I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

love the life you live. live the life you love.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, "˜I don't care how hard this is, I don't care how disappointed I am, I'm not going to let this get the best of me. I'm moving on with my life.

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

The best way out is always through.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you—just listen to The voice that speaks inside.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

If you are sad, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Where words fail, music speaks.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Lead from the back "” and let others believe they are in front.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they're going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

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.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Paris is always a good idea.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Love would never leave us alone

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Creativity takes courage.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing — light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

One eye sees, the other feels.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

The knowledge of all things is possible

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

There are no ordinary moments.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

I ask not for any crownBut that which all may win;Nor try to conquer any worldExcept the one within.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!

If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders"¦and millions have been killed because of this obedience"¦Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves"¦ (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

They do not love that do not show their love.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

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.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

I dwell in possibility.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

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.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

I'm telling you, people. Everyday we wake up is another blessing. Follow your dreams and don't let anyone stop you. Never say never.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

Nothing will work unless you do.

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors."

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "˜To rise above little things'.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?... He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

You can only fight the way you practice

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

The best revenge is massive success.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I will find a way — or make one.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth is fully known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse that it is.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

For every single dark night there is a brighter day.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve When I Asked God for Happiness He Showed Me Some Unhappy People When I Asked God for Wealth He Showed Me How to Work Hard When I Asked God for Favors He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard When I Asked God for Peace He Showed Me How to Help Others God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

Time wounds all heels.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.