Motivational Quotes

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

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.

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

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

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.

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

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

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.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

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.

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

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

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

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.

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

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.

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.

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

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.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

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.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

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.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

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.

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.

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

Lost time is never found again.

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

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

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.

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.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

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

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

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

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

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

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

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

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

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.

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.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

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.

I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.

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

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

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

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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

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

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.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

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.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

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

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

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

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

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

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.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

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.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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

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

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

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

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

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

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.

Nothing will work unless you do.

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

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.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

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

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

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

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.

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

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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

The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,as perfect, as unspoiled,as if you had never wasted or misapplieda single moment in all your life.You can turn over a new leaf every hourif you choose.

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

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

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

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.

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

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

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.

We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are

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.

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

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

To be a man you've gotta beat the man.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.

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

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

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

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

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

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

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

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.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

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.

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

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

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

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

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.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

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

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

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.

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.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

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.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

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

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

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

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.

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

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

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

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

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

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

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.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

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.

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!

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

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.

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

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

I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

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

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

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

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

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

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

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.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

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

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming."

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Tough times never last. Tough people do

Failure is success in progress

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things—-to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

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

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

Failure is not an option.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

Love is energy of life.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

Success doesn't come to you… you go to it.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

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

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? — and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

It takes two men to make one brother.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

One chance is all you need.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Never, never, never give up.

If you have a body, you are an athlete!

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Change before you have to.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men 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.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

If not you, who? If not now, when?

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

It doesn't get any easier; you just get faster.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir one's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work; remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output - how much you produce - not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

You will go one on one with the Great One!

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

"ﾂ燦e only have so many faces in our pockets

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

He can run, but he can't hide.

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Step by step and the thing is done.

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

Reality is something you rise above.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

To heal from the inside out is the key.

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems,but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.

I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

To finish first, you must first finish.

We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

Accomplishments have no color

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

Success is the child of audacity.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Questers of the truth, that's who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being's authentic core.

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.