• I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.
• Travel is an investment in yourself.
• Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.
• Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.
• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
• My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
• Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
• As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
• I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
• Life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath. We ge
• Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’
• Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
• Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.
• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
• Travel brings power and love back into your life.
• The more you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.
• If you can’t live longer, live deeper.
• Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledg
• The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see.
• To travel is to evolve.
• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
• The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
• He who does not travel does not know the value of men.
• The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
• Take only memories, leave only footprints.
• When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
• I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.
• Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.
• I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
• If Obama wins, I’m leaving the country. If Romney wins, I’m leaving the country. This has nothing to do with politics; I just want to travel.
• Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight seeing.’
• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
• Tourists don’t know where they’ve been; travelers don’t know where they’re going.
• Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but, by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
• Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.
• I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.
• Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
• I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like the people or hate them than to travel with them.
• A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.
• The journey not the arrival matters.
• There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.
• The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
• Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
• Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.
• I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.
• We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.
• The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
• One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
• Do not follow where the path may lead.Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
• You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
• I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
• Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.
• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
• If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.
• If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal.
• For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
• Not all those who wander are lost.
• Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.
• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
• The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
• A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs - even though checkered by failure - than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
• He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
• If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
• If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
• I couldn’t wait for success....so I went ahead without it.
• Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
• Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.
• Persistence. Nothing in the 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 derel
• Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.
• Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control.
• Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out - it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.
• Life is a leap into the unknown. If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
• Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes... but that would be a mistake.
• Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
• Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
• The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
• Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
• It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it’s because we do not dare that they are difficult.
• It’s easy to be brave from a safe distance.
• That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
• Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: kindness in another’s trouble, courage in our own.
• All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
• Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
• You don’t get in life what you want. You get what you are.
• Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
• You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.
• Action is where it’s at, as far as making dreams come true. We ourselves are the prime channel for our creations, so if we don’t act but just wait, then we are blocking the channel. If we do act then we will be supported by all that we are connected to...
• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
• You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
• Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
• Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action.
• If you have made mistakes there is always another chance for you... you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
• Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endu
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
• The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.
• It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
• If successful people have one common trait, it’s an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they’re driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.
• Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
• Whether you be man or woman, you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” –James Lane Allen
• The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.
• The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
• Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
• The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
• When the bull’s-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
• It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.
• Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
• Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
• We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
• Money like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.
• All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You’ve got to find it on your own terms.
• The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.
• Things that are impossible just take longer.
• If you’re going through hell, keep going.
• Create a set of great personal values and surround yourself with the right people that can form your support system. Have an optimistic spirit and develop a strong purpose that you completely believe in and everything you can imagine is possible, for you.
• Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
• 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.
• When you follow your bliss doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.
• Winners are the people who when the odds are stacked against them, and those around them have fallen, will have the courage to look within themselves and make the unbelievable believable, and the impossible possible.
• 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 ac
• A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of opportunities. An optimist makes opportunities of so-called difficulties.
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
• I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, they make them.
• Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.
• The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
• Either you deal with what is the reality or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
• Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.
• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
• I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see and pursuing that vision.
• Entrepreneurship is a state of mind, a can-do attitude, a capacity to focus on a vision and work toward it.
• The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.
• The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
• Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.
• Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
• A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
• The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a small step.
• An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.
• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.
• Go out looking for one thing, and that’s all you’ll ever find.
• Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.
• What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny.
• When we feel stuck, going nowhere - even starting to slip backward - we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
• We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
• Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
• View money and things not as something you create to fill a lack, but as tools to help you more fully express yourself and realize your potential.
• Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a gre
• The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
• Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do. But I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
• Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
• If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
• It is not in everyone’s power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.
• There are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.
• The height of your accomplishments is determined by the depth of your convictions.
• Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose to be grateful for the abundance that’s present -- love, health, family, friends, work,
• Let us rise up and be thankful, for Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
• Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
• What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
• For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
• One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
• Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
• Be ready when opportunity comes.... Luck is when preparation and opportunity meet.
• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
• But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
• Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
• If sex were shoes, I'd wear you out. But I wouldn't wear you out in public.
• You know that old saying. Once you go dead, no one's better in bed.
• Sex is an emotion in motion.
• Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
• It’s absolutely unfair for women to say that guys only want one thing: sex. We also want food.
• Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.
• Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
• No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
• sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love
• Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
• The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
• The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
• We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
• Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand
• Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
• I want to wait to have sex until I’m married.
• Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
• Sex is hardly ever just about sex.
• There’s no religion but sex and music.
• This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock ‘n roll, and if I may say so, I’m pretty good at it.
• Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
• Kissing – and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing – is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.
• I need sex for a clear complexion, but I’d rather do it for love.
• Literature – creative literature – unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
• I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
• To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you’re impotent. She can’t wait to disprove it.
• I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
• You can’t have rock and roll without drugs, you can’t have rock and roll without sex.
• Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
• I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
• Sex is the best high. It’s better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
• Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
• Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvellous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
• Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain’t over ’til you both get your cookie.
• I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they’re seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that’s fine for me. I’m not saying I don’t like it. But I don’t think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because
• I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.
• Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
• I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was ‘the man goes on top and the woman underneath.’ For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
• I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
• Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
• You can’t talk about fucking in America, people say you’re dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that’s cool.
• I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.
• Sex is great until you die, but it’s never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.
• The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.
• My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects.
• I remember the first time I had sex — I kept the receipt.
• Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
• How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.
• Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
• Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
• We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
• My mother told me that life isn’t always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.
• Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.
• You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
• But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
• My first time I jacked off, I thought I’d invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.
• I couldn’t possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
• Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
• Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.
• It’s absolutely unfair for women to say that guys only want one thing: sex. We also want food.
• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
• Good sex is like good bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.
• Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
• I don’t know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
• Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are beautiful
• Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, a little wine, good food and companionship. She goes Mondays, I go Fridays.
• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
• We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
• Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
• Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.
• The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.
• Everything that can be invented has been invented.
• If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
• This isn't burger king, you can't have it your way.
• If you try and don't succeed, cheat. Repeat until caught. Then lie.
• Don't talk about yourself so much... we'll do that when you leave.
• Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
• What if, at this very moment, you are living up to your full potential?
• It isn't pollution that's harming the environment, it's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it
• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
• The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
• Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
• Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.
• Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country
• He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
• There are 10 types of people in this world; those who understand the binary number system and those who do not
• Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
• Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
• When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.
• Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
• I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
• There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
• Underneath the skin, all humanity are brothers and I would gladly skin humanity alive to prove it.
• Never give up, never give up, never, never, never give up!
• It is best to mince one's words very finely, it makes them much easier to eat afterwards.
• Never preceed anything more complex than a Frisbee throw with, 'Hey boss, watch this!
• It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt
• Only newspaper editors and people with tapeworms should ever refer to themselves as, 'we'
• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
• For business reasons, I must maintain the outward signs of sanity.
• How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same?
• If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
• If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
• I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties.
• If it boils and is watched, it can't be a pot.
• The second best policy is dishonesty
• I can't make predictions and I never will
• There is no surer way to ruin a good discussion than to contaminate it with facts.
• If you can remember the '60s, then you weren't there.
• Practice makes perfect.
• Smile, it makes people wonder what you're thinking.
• When all else fails, read the instructions.
• It's not an optical illusion, it just looks that way.
• Some drink at the fountain of knowledge...others just gargle.
• A witty saying proves nothing.
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
• It is best to mince one's words very finely, it makes them much easier to eat afterwards.
• Never preceed anything more complex than a Frisbee throw with, 'Hey boss, watch this!
• It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt
• Only newspaper editors and people with tapeworms should ever refer to themselves as, 'we'
• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
• For business reasons, I must maintain the outward signs of sanity.
• How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same?
• If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
• If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
• I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties.
• If it boils and is watched, it can't be a pot.
• The second best policy is dishonesty
• I can't make predictions and I never will
• There is no surer way to ruin a good discussion than to contaminate it with facts.
• If you can remember the '60s, then you weren't there.
• Practice makes perfect.
• Smile, it makes people wonder what you're thinking.
• When all else fails, read the instructions.
• It's not an optical illusion, it just looks that way.
• Some drink at the fountain of knowledge...others just gargle.
• A witty saying proves nothing.
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
• 'Of course,' said my grandfather, pulling a gun from his belt as he stepped from the Time Machine, 'There's no paradox if I shoot YOU'.
• This year's Psychic Fair will be held on June 23rd. In the event of rain, it will be held the previous Saturday.
• A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
• I went to a General Store, but they wouldn't sell me anything specific.
• I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
• Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six pounds and I'm still hungry.
• If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you drop a buttered cat?
• I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded, dead.
• You cannot have everything. I mean, where would you put it?
• If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
• Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
• If you need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.
• Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a seat has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.
• Imagine if every thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them in the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining!
• Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
• Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.
• If you don't find what you want in the Index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
• I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
• Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
• Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
• We have enough youth, how about a fountain of Smart?
• Why is abbreviation such a long word?
• Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
• Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
• Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.
• It's lonely at the top, but the food is better.
• I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
• It's a small world, but I wouldn't like to paint it.
• The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
• It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to always be right by having no ideas at all.
• Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
• A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
• It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing; it was here first.
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
• It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.
• It is the nature of emergencies to be inconvenient.
• Compromise is the art of dividing a cake so everyone believes he got the biggest piece.
• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
• People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
• I'm not stupid. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
• Wisdom has two parts: 1) Having a lot to say, and 2) not saying it.
• I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
• All that is necessary for the forces of evil to take root in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
• Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then go and do it anyway.
• Anything free is worth the price.
• You can have peace, or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
• I used to know everything, till everything changed.
• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
• If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
• Never explain -- your Friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
• We have the finest politicians that money can buy.
• Democracy is the worst possible form of government, except for all the others.
• When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
• Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those that find it.
• My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
• I avoid clichés like the plague.
• All sweeping generalisations are wrong.
• Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart people who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
• For every problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
• Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
• I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
• Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
• There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know absolutely nothing about.
• Computers are useless. They can only give answers.
• Male zebras have white stripes, female zebras have black stripes.
• Half of the people in the world are below average.
• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
• It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
• There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
• Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
• Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand
• The only reason some people get lost in thought because it is unfamiliar territory.
• I have given up anarchy. Too many rules - hating the government and all that stuff.
• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
• Courage is the art of being the only one that knows you're scared to death.
• Be nice to other people; they outnumber you 5.5 billion to one.
• There are two rules for success... 1) Never tell everything you know.
• To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.
• When I was born, I was so surprised, I couldn't talk for a year and a half!
• Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.
• The trouble with doing something right the first time, is nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
• It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
• Where in the nursery rhyme does it say Humpty Dumpty is an egg?
• The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused
• I went to a restaurant that was so expensive that they didn't have prices on the menu - just little faces with varying expressions of horror.
• I always win. Except when I lose, but then I just don't count it.
• Anything not nailed down is mine. Anything I can pry loose is not nailed down.
• A new study shows that licking the sweat off a frog can cure depression. The down side is, the minute you stop licking, the frog gets depressed again.
• 95% of statistics are just made up anyway.
• 25% of the general population believe in statistics. The other 80% don't trust them at all.
• The DOPELER Effect is the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly
• It's important to have an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
• You don't need an engine to go downhill.
• When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
• What sets us apart from animals is that we're not afraid of vacuum cleaners.
• 'Veni, Vidi, Visa'. I came. I Saw. I did a little shopping.
• 'Veni, Vidi, Velcro' - I came, I saw, I stuck around.
• To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
• Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana
• There's no future in time travel.
• There are three kinds of people - those who can count, and those who can't.
• There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
• The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
• The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.
• The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
• The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
• The early bird gets the worm, but the early worm gets eaten.
• The amount of sleep needed by the average person is ten minutes more.
• That's OK. I don't remember my name either.
• Some days you are the fly, other days you are the windscreen.
• Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.
• Rome wasn't built in a day, it just looks like that.
• Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
• Personifiers of the world! Unite! You have nothing to lose but Mr. Dignity!
• On the other hand, I have some fingers.
• Of course, you may smoke - but please don't exhale.
• No problem is so big that you can't run away from it.
• No one is listening until you make a mistake.
• No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.
• Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
• Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
• Never ask a barber if he thinks you need a haircut.
• My supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size
• My favourite scientific theory is that the rings of Saturn are made of lost airline luggage.
• Millions yearn for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
• Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
• I've had amnesia for as long as I can remember
• I've got a mind like a.. a.. what's that thing called?
• It's not the heights that bother me it's falling on the bottoms of them.
• It's a small world, but I'd hate to have to paint it.
• It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
• It doesn't matter how you get there if you don't know where you're going.
• If you want someone to catch something, throw it at their nose.
• If you lend someone £20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
• If you strangle a smurf, what color does it turn?
• If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?
• If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what was yesterday?
• If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?
• If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
• If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
• I'm having a deja vu experience, just like last time.
• I'm feeling argumentative. Please contradict me.
• If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of mortgage payments.
• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
• I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges
• I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.
• I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
• I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame you.
• I am not young enough to know everything.
• How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink?
• He's supposed to sound like he's in pain, he's a folk singer.
• He who laughs last didn't understand the joke
• Atheism is a non-prophet organisation.
• Ask me about my vow of silence.
• As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
• Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.
• Hangover: The wrath of grapes.
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you can sell him some tackle
• Frisbeetarianism: The belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
• Free jazz is so called because no-one would ever buy it.
• Experience is something you get just after you need it.
• Everyone is someone else's weirdo.
• Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film.
• Entertainment is just talking louder than the audience.
• Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
• Don't worry about the world ending today, it's already tomorrow in Australia
• Don't worry about avoiding temptation - as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
• Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
• Don't personify computers - we don't like it.
• Diplomacy is the art of saying 'good doggie' while looking for a bigger stick.
• Did you know the word gullible is not in the dictionary?
• Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
• Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
• Caution: do not look into laser with remaining eye.
• Breaking the law of gravity isn't painful it's getting caught that hurts.
• Boomerangs are coming back, Ski slopes are going downhill, but Exit signs are on the way out.
• Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.
• Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away, and you have their shoes
• Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes right to the bone
• Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
• Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of.
• Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
• Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
• All my life I wanted to be someone. I guess I should have been more specific.
• All men can fly, but sadly, only in one direction - down.
• A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
• A sine curve goes off to infinity, or at least to the end of the blackboard.
• A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
• A sentence is something you should never put a preposition at the end of.
• A neat desk is the sign of a sick mind.
• A neat desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
• Always try to make other people happy, even if you have to leave them alone to do it
• A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
• A dog is a dog unless he is facing you. Then he is Mr. Dog.
• A device that will cut your fuel bills in half - scissors
• A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
• A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
• A closed mouth gathers no foot.
• A chicken is an egg's way of making another egg
• Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
• A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
• 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? You decide.
• 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population.
• Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
• The fact that someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true. Doesn’t mean they’re lying, but it doesn’t mean it’s true.
• Comfort is found among those who agree with you; growth among those who don’t.
• It takes more courage to alter an opinion than to stick with it.
• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible...
• Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer injury to our self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their self-importance, learn so easily; and why older people, especially if vain or arrogant, cannot learn a
• Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.
• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
• In their freedom, birds make expanding circles in the sky. How do they learn to be free? They fall—and by falling are given wings to fly.
• An educated mind is useless without a focussed will and dangerous without a loving heart.
• Education is nothing more, nor less, than learning to think!
• We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
• The only stupid question is one not asked.
• The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
• Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
• Learning without thinking is labor lost; thinking without learning is perilous.
• If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
• The way to make learning a lesson a celebration, instead of a cause for regret, is to ask ... How can I put this to use today?
• It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
• Children need models rather than critics.
• When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.
• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For th
• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not remains a fools for life.
• If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance.
• Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.
• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
• If he is indeed wise, the teacher does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather he leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
• The best thing parents can do for their children is to love each other.
• The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
• Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
• Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
• Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only that the cat died nobly.
• Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
• An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
• Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a natio
• Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
• Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
• Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
• You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so... get on your way!
• You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
• You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
• You can do it if you believe you can.
• You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
• When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
• What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
• We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
• Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
• Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.
• Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
• To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
• They are able because they think they are able.
• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
• The shell must break before the bird can fly.
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
• There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
• There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.
• There are no footsteps to follow on your own path ... but that's where the fun and adventure live.
• The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
• The man who has no imagination has no wings.
• The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
• 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.
• The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.
• The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.
• That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
• Tears are like rain. They loosen up our soil so we can grow in different directions.
• Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.
• So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's a great balancing act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
• Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anybody else.
• Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
• Only you can control your future.
• Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
• Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
• Nothing is overly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
• Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
• Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
• Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
• Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.
• Little by little one walks far.
• Life's problems wouldn't be called hurdles if there wasn't a way to get over them.
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
• Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
• Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
• I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
• I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
• It's time to break out of your shell and show the world who you really are and what you're really made of! Live your dreams!
• It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.
• It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
• In your dreams, anything is possible. It's time to wake up and start dreaming.
• In order to be big, you have to think big. If you think small, you're going to be small.
• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionaries of fools!
• I hope when you count the stars you begin with yourself, and may you embrace the moonlight with your dreams.
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
• If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.
• If you try to do your best there is no failure.
• If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing; you're right.
• If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up.
• If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. The world needs more of that.
• If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
• If you can dream it, you can do it.
• If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
• If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.
• If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember: You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
• I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
• Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
• Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
• Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
• 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!
• Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
• Energy and persistence conquer all things.
• Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them.
• Do you want to play it safe and be good or do you want to take a chance and be great?
• Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
• Don't let your fear of what could happen make nothing happen.
• Don't give up. I believe in you all. A person's a person no matter how small.
• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
• Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
• Don't be afraid to be amazing.
• Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
• Change brings opportunity.
• BE YOU: BE-LIEVE IN YOU-RSELF
• Beautiful pictures are developed from negatives in a dark room. So if you see darkness in your life be reassured that a beautiful picture is being prepared.
• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
• A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are built for.
• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
• A person will only leave their comfort zone once they decide that magic and adventure outweigh complete certainty and security.
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
• And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!
• A man is but of product of his thought. What he thinks he becomes.
• Always remember: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.
• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
• Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
• All things are difficult before they are easy.
• All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
• A great attitude becomes a great day, which becomes a great month, which becomes a great year, which becomes a great life.
• Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
• People rarely succeed unless they enjoy what they are doing.
• Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
• I don’t know if you’ll succeed or fail, but I know this: you will fail if you don’t try!
• Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
• You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
• While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
• One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
• Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
• Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
• Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
• Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It’s the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
• Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
• The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It’s not failure but aiming too low, that is life’s greatest tragedy.
• Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
• If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
• Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons.
• Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
• Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
• The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure.
• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you’re heading.
• Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
• Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
• The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
• Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
• People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions and help them throw rocks at their enemies.
• If we can only accept what we currently believe, we have already reached our full potential. Be willing to experiment, to take risks. While skepticism can be healthy, too much skepticism can be deadly... deadly to one’s spirit, to one’s sense of well-bein
• Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
• Luck favors the well prepared.
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
• Real difficulties can be overcome. It’s the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
• You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
• Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
• The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... and fight for what you believe in?
• A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
• The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.
• It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
• When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
• If your actions inspire others to do more, to learn more, to dream more or to become more, you are a leader.
• Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
• Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
• Entrepreneurship is a state of mind, a can-do attitude, a capacity to focus on a vision and work toward it.
• Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage without fear.
• Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
• To lead people, walk beside them... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate. When the best leader’s work is done the people say
• We must find time to stop and thank the people who have made a difference in our lives.
• If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
• It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
• The price of greatness is responsibility.
• Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.
• Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
• I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
• If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the
• Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
• Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
• An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
• 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.
• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
• If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
• First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
• He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a big ship.
• Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
• The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
• Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
• I think leadership comes from integrity - that you do whatever you ask others to do. I think there are non-obvious ways to lead. Just by providing a good example as a parent, a friend, a neighbor makes it possible for other people to see better ways to do
• My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”
• Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.
• Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
• The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.
• In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
• Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
• A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.
• The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
• A leader is a dealer in hope.
• Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
• The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
• Destiny is not a 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.
• Destiny is not a 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.
• Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.
• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
• It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
• There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
• You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
• It’s not differences that divide us. It’s our judgments about each other that do.
• In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
• We can do anything we want to as long as we stick to it long enough.
• You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
• If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
• Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.
• We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
• Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them.
• Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.
• Confidence is contagious. So is the lack of confidence.
• Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
• Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.
• Great masters merit emulation, not worship.
• A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
• Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviours. Keep your behaviours positive because your behaviours become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habit
• Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
• When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
• Life’s not about waiting for the storms to pass... it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
• We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
• Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
• Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
• If doubt is challenging you and you do not act, doubts will GROW. Challenge the doubts with action and YOU will grow.
• If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!
• A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It’s the testing point of our character and competence.
• My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
• Even if you encounter opposition, have conviction and finish what you start. In the end, people will understand.
• Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
• The price of excellence is discipline; the cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
• How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life - and a commitment to action. Every day, it’s important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What’s good in my life?’ and ‘What need
• Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.
• It is your decisions not your conditions that truly shape the quality of your life.
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
• Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
• I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
• When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.
• Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth.
• Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.
• Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with t hat desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformi
• Lust feels like love until it's time to make a sacrifice.
• True lust knows no bounds. Marriage or otherwise
• A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
• From desire I plunge to its fulfillment, where I long once more for desire.
• Lust is like rot in the bones.
• I think only of the joy and forget the folly-I lose sight of common sense, and follow my desire.
• Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
• Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard on And no one will pardon the snake Look who invents him and later torments him Then makes us repent our mistakes.
• Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.
• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
• What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
• If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
• I am always looking for meaningful one night stands.
• The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.
• If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
• I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
• Lust will curdle like milk if you don't keep using it up.
• Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
• Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.
• Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.
• I think I could fall madly in bed with you.
• Men get laid, but women get screwed.
• Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
• The human body is the best work of art.
• Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
• Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
• Lust is a tool, desire a trap. Wield the first, and you can take someone's soul. Fall into the second, and they can take yours.
• To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
• Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
• Beware of lust; it corrupts both the body and the mind.
• Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.
• Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, what most we ought to fear; the headstrong beast rushes along, impatient of the course; nor hears the rider's call, nor feels the rein.
• Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakened the body of man, and effeminate the strength of the heroic mind.
• Lust is the cause of generation.
• Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.
• Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
• Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.
• Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
• Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always put the affections into a false gallop.
• Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.
• Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.
• Lust is a thing of the blood. Doesn't need head or heart.
• Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
• The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
• So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.
• Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.
• But stain'd with sensuality and lust, The human mind lay prostrate in the dust.
• Maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.
• A satyr, which is half man and half beast, is the emblem of lust; to show that its followers prostitute the reason of man to gratify the appetites of a beast.
• I know the very difference that lies 'Twixt hallowed love and base, unholy lust; I know the one is as a golden spur, Urging the spirit to all noble aims; The other but a foul and miry pit, Overthrowing it in the midst of its career; I know the one is as a
• But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
• Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven; So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, Will sate itself in a celestial bed, And prey on garbage.
• O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.
• Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
• Lust is the oldest lion of them all.
• Lust is the cause of generation.
• Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
• There is no disease so destructive as lust.
• I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
• Consider, for example, lust versus love. When we lust after someone or something, we think in terms of what they (or it) can do for us. When we love, however, our thoughts are immersed in what we can give to someone else. Giving makes us feel good, so we
• Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
• To lust is human. To love is divine.
• The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.
• Nature is content with little; grace with less; lust with nothing.
• The mind of lust is just as degraded today as in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah. The mind of lust has been the same in all ages. It has been the same ever since it deceived Eve. It is in the consciousness of the race, now as then, and the mind of the lust
• The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
• Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformit
• There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will
• But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to its own solitude. Like all the sins, it also makes us solitary. It is self-abdication at the very core of one's own being,
• Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.
• Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.
• Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, what most we ought to fear; the headstrong beast rushes along, impatient of the course; nor hears the rider's call, nor feels the rein.
• Love is nothing but lust misspelled.
• Disdain to warm thee at lust's smoky fires, Scorn, scorn to feed on thy old bloat desires: Come, come, my soul, hoist up thy higher sails, The wind blows fair; shall we still creep like snails, That glide their ways with their own native slimes?
• Between the horses of love and lust we are trampled underfoot.
• Lust is a tool, desire a trap. Wield the first, and you can take someone's soul. Fall into the second, and they can take yours.
• Lusts are the cords with which Satan binds men; our fiery trials are God's messengers sent to loose these bands.
• Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
• Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves.
• Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakened the body of man, and effeminate the strength of the heroic mind.
• Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
• People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeke
• If they substituted the word Lust for Love in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
• Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always put the affections into a false gallop.
• A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
• The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
• Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
• Don't forget to love yourself.
• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a pe
• I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
• A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
• True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
• Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
• The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
• Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
• I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
• Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
• Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
• You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
• Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
• Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
• Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
• Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
• If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
• Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
• Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
• If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
• I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
• Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
• Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
• Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
• Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
• A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
• Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
• Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
• The course of true love never did run smooth.
• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
• The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
• Ultimately love is everything.
• Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
• You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
• We are born of love; Love is our mother.
• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
• A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
• The first duty of love is to listen.
• We loved with a love that was more than love.
• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronge
• We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
• Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
• Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
• Where there is love there is life.
• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
• You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and af
• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
• The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
• Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a pe
• Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
• A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
• The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
• Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
• Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
• Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
• Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
• Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
• A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs - even though checkered by failure - than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
• He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
• Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
• I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn’t feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not —more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life arou
• It is never too late to become what you might have been.
• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
• He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
• I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
• Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
• The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.
• Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.
• Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know - that man is here for the sake of other me
• Nothing happens unless first a dream.
• The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
• Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
• The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
• It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
• There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity.
• Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
• Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
• Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.
• Life’s like a movie; write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending...
• It’s never too late to be what you might have been.
• Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
• Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
• The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
• Destiny is not a 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.
• If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
• We can’t change the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
• Wisdom is knowing what path to take next... Integrity is taking it.
• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside awakes.
• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you; and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.
• Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never fou
• You often meet your destiny on the road you’ve taken to avoid it.
• A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for.
• The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
• I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing
• We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
• We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.
• People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
• It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
• Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood.
• Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
• Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.
• Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
• There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
• When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
• All of life is a near-death experience.
• If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the past’s effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the cause of the future.
• I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
• To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
• Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.
• Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
• Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.
• I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
• Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
• People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
• True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
• Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life and don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly wa
• We seek purpose when we are not in touch with who we really are. When an apple tree discovers who it is, the question ‘what must I do?’ disappears. When you discover who you are (at the deepest place of your being) you will find your purpose.
• When you see what you’re here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It’s almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.
• Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
• You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
• When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dorm
• Dignity and respect has to do with ... your personal power to make a difference by being true to the best within you and letting that truth shine through your words and actions.
• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
• Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
• I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
• The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
• Destiny is not a 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.
• You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
• Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.
• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
• The best career advice to give the young is, find out what you like doing best and get someone else to pay you for doing it.
• The goal of childhood is to become an individual; the goal of adulthood is to give that individuality away. The task of childhood is to separate; the task of adulthood is to connect.
• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
• The time is always right to do what is right.
• If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.
• We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
• From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly apprec
• There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.
• There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?
• Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all Mankind.
• Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
• It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know to be true.
• The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
• Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
• How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life - and a commitment to action.
• To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart.
• Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
• Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
• Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
• Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.
• The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.
• There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
• Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves?
• You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.
• Life is not discovery of fate; it is continuous creation of future, through choices of thoughts, feelings and actions in the present.
• There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
• I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.
• Destiny is not a 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.
• There is a fire inside. Sit down beside it. Watch the flames, the ancient, flickering dance of yourself.
• We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.
• Whatever you are willing to put up with is exactly what you will have.
• I’m not afraid... I was BORN for this!
• It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
• Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
• You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
• Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
• 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.
• By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
• If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody up.
• The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.
• The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.
• Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.
• A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
• A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
• A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
• A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
• You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
• You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
• Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.
• After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
• This to shall pass.
• The best way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
• If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
• You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
• Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
• You may delay, but time will not.
• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
• Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
• When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
• What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
• What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
• True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
• To do two things at once is to do neither.
• To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
• Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.
• Time is the wisest counselor of all.
• Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
• Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.
• Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
• The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.
• The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
• Every no gets me closer to a yes.
• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
• The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
• The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
• The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
• The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
• The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
• The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
• The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
• The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.
• Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thou shalt progress.
• Take the first step in faith. We don't need to see the whole staircase; we just need to take the first step.
• Take a rest. A field that has rested yields a beautiful crop.
• Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
• Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
• Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
• Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
• Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
• 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.
• Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
• It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.
• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
• If you're bored with life,you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things , you don't have enough goals.
• If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
• If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.
• If it weren’t for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn’t get done.
• I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
• He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.
• He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
• Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
• Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
• A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
• You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
• Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
• Every day of your working life is part of an interview for a job you don't even know you're going for yet.
• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
• You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
• While we are postponing, life speeds by.
• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
• We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
• To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
• Time lost is never found again.
• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
• Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
• The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
• The most important question to ask is, what am I becoming?
• The most effective way to do it is to do it.
• The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.
• The impossible is often the untried.
• The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
• The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.”
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
• So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
• Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.
• People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.
• Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.
• Nothing happens until something moves.
• Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
• No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
• Never let yesterday use up today.
• Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.
• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
• Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
• Life is full of obstacle illusions.
• Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
• Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
• It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
• It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?
• It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.
• It is never too late to be who you might have been.
• It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top.
• It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.
• It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
• In a day, when you don't come across any problems , you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.
• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
• If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
• If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
• If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
• I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
• I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
• I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
• He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.
• He who gains time gains everything.
• He that rises late must trot all day.
• Goals determine what you're going to be.
• Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
• Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.
• For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
• Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
• Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.
• Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
• Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
• If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
• Education is the mother of leadership.
• Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
• Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
• Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
• Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
• As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
• A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
• A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
• A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
• A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
• A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
• You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
• Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.
• There is no passion to be found playing small.
• The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100%.
• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
• You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.
• You must get good at one of two things. Planting in the spring or begging in the fall.
• You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
• You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
• You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
• 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.
• We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things.
• We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
• There is no such thing as failure. You either succeed or learn.
• Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
• Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
• Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
• Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
• Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
• Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
• Time is money.
• The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
• The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
• The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
• The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
• The best revenge is massive success.
• Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
• Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
• One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.
• Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
• Nothing is ours except time.
• Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
• Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
• Lost time is never found again.
• Live each day as if it be your last.
• Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
• Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
• My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back.
• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
• Money, I can only gain or lose. But time I can only lose. So, I must spend it carefully.
• Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
• Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”
• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
• Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
• Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.
• Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them.
• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
• It’s better to do the right thing slowly than the wrong thing quickly.
• It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
• It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
• In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
• Live fully. Love openly. Make a difference.
• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
• If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
• If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.
• If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
• If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
• If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
• If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
• I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
• I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
• I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
• I didn’t fail the test. I just found
• I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
• He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
• He who has great power should use it lightly.
• Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.
• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
• Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
• Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want.
• Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
• Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
• I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t.
• Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
• Earn your leadership every day.
• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
• Eighty percent of success is showing up.
• Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
• Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of.
• Don’t spend a dollar’s worth of time on a ten-cent decision.
• Don’t be stomping on ants when you have elephants to feed.
• Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right
• Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
• Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
• Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
• 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.
• Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
• Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.
• Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
• Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
• Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise.
• Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.
• Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
• An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
• Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.
• An unexamined life is not worth living.
• All the flowers of all of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
• All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
• All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.
• All great achievements require time.
• A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
• A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
• A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
• A leader is a dealer in hope.
• A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
• A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
• You manage things; you lead people.
• What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
• We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.
• To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
• The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
• Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
• People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
• If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
• I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
• Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
• Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in a harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.
• Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
• Always do what you are afraid to do.
• You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.
• Neither success nor failure are ever final.
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
• Change your thoughts and you change your world.
• You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
• You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
• You become what you believe.
• Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn
• Where there is no vision, the people perish.
• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
• Whatever you are, be a good one.
• What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
• We become what we think about.
• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
• There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
• There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
• The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
• The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
• The mind is everything. What you think you become.
• The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.
• Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.
• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
• Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
• Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
• If you’re going through hell, keep going!
• Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high a price for it.
• Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
• My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
• It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
• It is better to have lived one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep.
• The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
• If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
• I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves.
• I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
• I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
• Goals are dreams with deadlines.
• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
• Fall seven times and stand up eight.
• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
• A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.
• Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
• A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
• A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
• A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream,Discover.
• A goal without a plan is just a wish.
• Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
• What would you do if you weren't afraid?
• A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.
• A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
• If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
• Dream big and dare to fail.
• Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
• The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
• Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
• Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
• I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
• Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
• Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
• How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
• Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.
• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
• Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
• I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
• I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
• Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
• Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
• If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
• Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.
• Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
• Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
• Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
• Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
• A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
• Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.
• We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
• Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
• The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
• On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.
• Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
• The grass is always greener where you water it.
• The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
• Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.
• For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on
• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
• If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
• And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.
• Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
• If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
• It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
• A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for
• Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
• That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
• Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
• Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.
• I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
• Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.
• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
• Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
• The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
• Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
• Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
• I’d far rather be happy than right any day.
• When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
• Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
• Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
• Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock
• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
• Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
• This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small gree
• Happiness is a state of activity.
• Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.
• The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills the
• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
• A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
• For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
• The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
• Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
• We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround
• The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
• Happiness is acceptance.
• It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
• The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
• Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
• If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
• The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
• It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
• Happiness depends upon ourselves.
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
• Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
• There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
• Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon
• Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
• The only joy in the world is to begin.
• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
• Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
• Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
• To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
• Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.
• Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
• We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
• There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
• Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
• It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
• It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
• Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make cha
• The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
• If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’ If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.
• To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
• Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
• A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs - even though checkered by failure - than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
• He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
• Yesterday is the past. Tomorrow is the future. Today is a gift and that’s why we call it the present.
• You are up and you are happy. You are down and you are sad. All ups and downs help you to find a balance in your being. This is what life is all about. Once balanced, no more ups and downs, but bliss and joy and silence and gratitude.
• View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? what would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? what were the happy moments? what were the sad? what would you do again, and what you wouldn’t?
• View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie.
• Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
• Four Lessons on Life: 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don’t complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher.
• You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
• Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
• A man who does simply what is required of him will never know peace; for that, he must do all that he can.
• In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.
• Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
• That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
• God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
• The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
• Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend...when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s
• The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
• Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Was it worth it?
• To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.
• Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.
• Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
• Life isn’t measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
• If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug s
• We avoid the things that we’re afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.
• The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.
• Do what you have always done and you’ll get what you have always got.
• Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
• Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.
• The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
• Anything in life that we don’t accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.
• Take time to work - it is the price of success Take time to think - it is the source of power Take time to play - it is the secret of perpetual youth Take time to read - it is the fountain of wisdom Take time to be friendly - it is the road to happiness T
• Once you do something you love, you never have to work again.
• There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
• A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
• We fear that we are inadequate, but our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to
• Everything is a gift of the universe - even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
• In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
• There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts and then acting on them.
• Happiness in life is not measured by the things we achieve, the places we go, or the route that we take to get there. Happiness in life is measured by the people that we share all of our experiences with.
• We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you’re doing is in the doing of it. It’s not what you’re gonna get in the end - it’s not the final curtain - it’s really in the doing it, and loving what you’re doing.
• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sen
• I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.
• God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
• Wisdom is knowing what path to take next... Integrity is taking it.
• Carefully watch your THOUGHTS, for they become your WORDS. Manage and watch your WORDS, for they will become your ACTIONS. Consider and judge your ACTIONS, for they have become your HABITS. Acknowledge and watch your HABITS, for they shall become your VAL
• God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
• Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happi
• Money doesn’t bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money.
• We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
• We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.
• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
• Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
• Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, ov
• All this world is but a play... be thou the joyful player.
• Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
• True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.
• Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
• Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
• All the world’s a stage, and the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.
• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
• He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
• 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.
• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
• Reflect upon you present blessings, of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
• Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
• The need for forgiveness is an illusion. There is nothing to forgive.
• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.
• Most of us miss out on life’s big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. The World Cup. But we’re all eligible for life’s smaller prizes... A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fir
• True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
• Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
• They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
• You never regret being kind.
• Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
• In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.
• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, then there will be comfort for every sorrow, wha
• Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
• Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
• Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
• Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
• Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling.
• Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
• If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
• Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and
• Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
• The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them.
• You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.
• For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.
• I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real frien
• Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.
• If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
• There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
• Everything is a gift of the universe —even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
• If you look to others for fulfilment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the worl
• We forge the chains we wear in life.
• Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
• Ultimately your greatest teacher is to live with an open heart.
• Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
• When you return to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the town you missed, but your childhood.
• Life is a journey and if you fall in love with the journey you will be in love forever.
• Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.
• The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
• Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
• The best way to lie is to tell the truth . . . carefully edited truth.
• I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
• By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
• I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
• Why do people say “no offense” right before they’re about to offend you?
• Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
• Dogs have masters. Cats have staff.
• My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.
• How do you get a sweet little 80-year-old lady to say the F word? Get another sweet little 80-year-old lady to yell “BINGO!”
• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
• First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
• Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
• The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
• Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.
• I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
• When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did–in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.
• If God made everything, then God must be Chinese?
• I hate when I go to bed and I forget to turn my swag off.
• I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
• The two best times to keep your mouth shut are when you’re swimming and when you’re angry.
• Wouldn’t it be nice if the world was flat? That way we could just push off the people we don’t like.
• Most people are only alive because it’s illegal to shoot them.
• If I were a bird, I’d fly straight into a ceiling fan.
• I’ve realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.
• They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine was hit by a truck…
• I stay up late every night and realize it’s a bad idea every morning.
• Next time your girl wants you to take her somewhere expensive, take her to the gas station, almost 5.00/gallon.
• I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.
• I did a few researchers to get that information.
• If you watch Home Alone backwards, it’s a story about two men who are helped out of traps by a young child, who then cleans them up. Then, the child’s family comes home and yells at him.
• I now know I’m psychic, because every time I go see a fortune teller, I know everything she says will be absolute bullshit ahead of time.
• You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.’
• A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.
• Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant.
• During a test, people look up for inspiration, down in desperation, and left and right for information.
• Trying to understand you is like trying to smell the color 9.
• Alarm Clocks: because every morning should begin with a heart attack.
• If you are one in a million, there are six thousand people just like you.
• Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
• A politician is a fellow who will lay your life down for his country.
• A good friend will help you move, a best friend will help you move a dead body.
• Friendship is like peeing your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel it.
• I’m so broke, I can’t even pay attention.
• Silence is golden; duct tape is silver.
• Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says, ‘Oh crap, she’s up.’
• I have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of my life; if I die next Tuesday.
• Of course I’m not perfect; there’s a crack in my ass!
• I’m great in bed; I can sleep for days.
• Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in the one ahead.
• If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, just try missing a couple of payments.
• If she were a president, she’d be Baberham Lincoln.
• Just remember, if the world didn’t suck, we’d all fall off.
• It’s useless to hold a person to anything they say when they are in love, drunk, or running for office.
• My life is all math. I am trying to add to my income, subtract from my weight, divide my time, and avoid multiplying.
• I’m gonna go take a hot shower. It’s like a normal shower, but with me in it.
• We kill people who kill people because killing people is wrong.
• If your life is all about screwing things and getting hammered, then congratulations, you’re a tool.
• It’s all fun and games, until someone calls the cops. Then it’s a new game; hide and seek.
• We live in the era of smart phones and stupid people.
• Etc. – End of Thinking Capacity.
• I put the pro in procrastinate.
• I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.
• People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
• Out of all the lies I’ve told, “Just kidding!” is my favourite.
• May your coffee be strong and your Monday be short.
• I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life.
• Accept who you are, unless you’re a serial killer.
• People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
• After Tuesday, even the calendar goes “W T F”.
• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
• All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable; and those who move.
• This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
• Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs
• Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
• Real peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of justice
• All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
• If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
• A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind
• Everything can be taken from a man but...the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
• Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
• Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.
• Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
• An eye for an eye will only serve to make the whole world blind.
• You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
• I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of tort
• He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
• Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change - and to preserve change amid order
• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
• People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
• Everyone needs to be loved, especially when they do not deserve it.
• The measure of a person’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
• We all judge others, but we all hate it when others judge us.
• The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
• Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.
• If you are seeking revenge, start by digging two graves.
• Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
• When you look at the long history of man, you see that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have been committed in the name of rebellion.
• It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
• Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way.
• If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.
• If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man’s life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
• If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
• Those who make peaceful reform impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
• You can discover what your enemy fears most by what he uses to frighten you.
• The great mass of people more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a minor one.
• What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
• Opinions founded on prejudice are always defended with the greatest violence.
• Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
• A nation that values it’s privileges above its principles soon loses both.
• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
• The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
• Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.
• When we are no longer able to change a situation... we are challenged to change ourselves.
• The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
• It’s easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
• A lie can go halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on.
• When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always.
• God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
• So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that cross and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.
• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
• If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
• If there is righteousness in the heart There will be beauty in the character; If there is beauty in the character There will be harmony in the home; When there is harmony in the home There will be order in the nation; When there is order in the nation The
• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
• A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed... When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic.
• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
• It is not the strongest of the species who survive, not the most intelligent, but those who are the most adaptive to change.
• The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life
• You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
• The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
• The judgment of others does not change who I am. Quite the opposite is true. It reveals who they are.
• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
• It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
• If you’re not tough it’s hard to survive in this world; and if you’re not kind then you don’t deserve to survive.
• Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book and dismiss whatever insults your own soul.
• This planet can be made a happier, more peaceful place to live, but the change will have to come from within the hearts of all of us living here.
• 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.
• Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of Love; and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
• In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
• The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... and fight for what you believe in?
• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
• In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately
• No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
• Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.
• We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
• We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
• Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.
• When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
• If you really want to create peace on the earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with... and then spread and radiate peace and love.
• None of us can do great things. We can only do a small thing with great love every day!
• The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
• Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
• Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly... you are doing the impossible.
• The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It’s what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mis
• If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
• When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.
• How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with
• It is nobler to lose honor and save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.
• On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
• Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected
• An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
• A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
• 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 each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labour, so far as it in no way interferes with any other man’s rights.
• Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know - that man is here for the sake of other me
• Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.
• Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must gi
• The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.
• Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
• The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
• Now is the moment. Act in harmony with your values, no matter what or whom you face. When you do, you will live with integrity and feel free and at peace.
• Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
• It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.
• Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
• It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.
• It is your prime responsibility to acquire useful knowledge from others and to apply it appropriately. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel, but you do have to learn from those who did.
• No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its oppo
• Man’s greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
• Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.
• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
• You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.
• Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
• Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.
• Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
• A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
• All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
• Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a gre
• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
• I’m okay, you’re okay. Now let’s go to work.
• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world.
• MY STYLE of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.
• Everything in life is luck.
• It doesn`t hurt to get more education.
• Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
• You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
• Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
• Don't dream to be something but rather dream to do something great.
• When opponents keep harping on one point, it is a sure sign of success!
• Mind is never a problem. Mindset is
• Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction
• People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
• I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
• I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
• When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighbouring communities.
• Worrying is like being in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but does not get you anywhere.
• Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking. That is what’s real.
• He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
• Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry.
• Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
• Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.
• Our identity is very closely associated with our thoughts and feelings. Usually, when we feel anger, we become angry. We are anger itself. When we feel depressed, we are depression. When we feel greedy we are greed. It’s easy to see ourselves in the emoti
• Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
• For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death or hardship.
• He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
• The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
• Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may be better. To the confident it is inspiring because the chal
• If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man’s life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
• Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
• Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.
• Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.
• When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspir
• Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.
• We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt...
• The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
• Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.
• Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
• Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
• In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
• The best portion of a good man’s life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
• Faith is a journey...not a guilt trip.
• Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
• Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
• Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
• With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one’s partner.
• Experience is not what happens to you - it’s how you interpret what happens to you.
• Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
• Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.
• You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
• We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.
• Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.
• Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
• Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.
• There are two cardinal sins from which all the others spring: impatience and laziness.
• Because fear is insatiable, everything that is insatiable is born of fear.
• Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
• We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt...
• We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us —how we can take it, what we do with it —and that is what really counts in the end.
• Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
• Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
• Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else: you are the one who gets burned.
• There’s enough for everyone’s need, but not for everyone’s greed.
• When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
• Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident. Riches take wing. Only one thing endures. And that is character.
• Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
• He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
• As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery... we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassio
• You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved... I mean, we’re constantly taking things. It’s a wonderful, ecstatic feeli
• Without death there would be very little progress.
• When you’re young, you look at most of the programs on television and think, ‘There’s a conspiracy! The networks have conspired to dumb us down!’ But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in the business to make money
• Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything.
• Pay no attention to critics. No one ever erected a statue to a critic
• Comfort is found among those who agree with you; growth among those who don’t.
• It takes more courage to alter an opinion than to stick with it.
• If it’s stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid.
• When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
• Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
• When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
• The impossible is often the untried.
• Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
• Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
• It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
• If life doesn’t offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
• If you’re not living on the edge... you’re taking up too much room.
• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
• Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
• If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that remains is a compromise.
• When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be
• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
• Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no h
• The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
• Intuition is not contrary to reason, but outside the province of reason.
• The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
• Life’s gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.
• In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do we ever find them.
• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
• The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
• Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.
• It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to keep it.
• Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
• If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
• We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
• A dream is a wish your heart makes.
• When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
• Going against the grain may result in a few splinters, and it may rub a few people the wrong way, but going with it is like forcing your TRUE self to walk the plank!
• Change cannot be avoided... change provides the opportunity for innovation. It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity.
• God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.
• ”When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
• Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.
• Life is creation -- self and circumstances, the raw material.
• Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
• You are the masterpiece of your own life; you are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David that you are sculpting is you.
• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
• The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have run out.
• The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
• You can’t depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus.
• I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
• Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
• The best way to predict the future is to invent it...
• Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.
• No great artists ever sees things as they really are. If he did then he would cease to be an artist.
• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside awakes.
• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
• Imagination is everything; it is the preview of life’s forthcoming attractions.
• Different is not necessarily better but better is always different.
• Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
• You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
• It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change
• When I take on a new problem, I’m not interested in how it’s been done before. I only want to know, of all the constraints people tend to assume, which ones are actually fundamental and which ones are just habit?
• To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
• To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow
• Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
• When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.
• The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
• Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
• The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference be
• The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
• It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits to our abilities do not exist.
• Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
• The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching fo
• To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
• Mastery is not perfection, it is journey, and the true master must be willing to try and fail and try again.
• Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavour and human creations.
• If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.
• To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
• To create an original work you must become a seer with eyes of spirit, that penetrate an invisible world and see the unformed future, which is the potential birthing place of an innovative product, service, invention or artistic achievement. Then you need
• Creativity gives rise to the limited out of the unlimited, to sanity out of madness, to the valuable out of the priceless, to abundance out of nothingness, to the original out of the familiar and to hope out of despair.
• Creativity is a marrying of our values, which determine the field of our endeavour, with our intentions, which draw to us the people, resources and finance. Creative genius values love and service and intends whatever is most urgently required.
• High values offer broad vision. Broad vision gives rise to burning desire. Burning desire leads to focused intent. Focused intent stimulates committed action. Then God arranges the details!
• To assume is to be deceived.
• A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
• To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
• Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
• If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
• Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
• Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
• The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
• Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
• The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question.
• Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
• The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.
• It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
• Some people say that dreaming gets you nowhere in life. But I say you can’t get anywhere in life without dreaming.
• There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.
• Vision without execution is hallucination.
• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
• Change cannot be avoided... change provides the opportunity for innovation. It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity.
• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift; the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.
• The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
• Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and have forgotten the gift.
• You get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact; and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the sam
• The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
• If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.
• An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
• Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.
• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distance continues to exist, a wonderful living side-by-side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the
• Sentimentality - that’s what we call the sentiment we don’t share.
• We would not have to forgive people if we didn’t judge them in the first place.
• Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
• In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone’s letter.
• That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act - an
• Don’t rob a friend, a partner, family member or the world of someone that could have been a real companion, and someone that could make a difference. Don’t ever give up being special!
• The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ult
• I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
• No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
• If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
• If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.
• The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
• A true friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today, just the way you are.
• When someone’s character seems impossible to fathom, observe his friends.
• To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
• Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other gold.
• We would not have to forgive people if we didn’t judge them in the first place.
• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
• A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it back to you when you’ve forgotten the words.
• If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
• Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
• A friend is a person with whom I may be honest. Before him, I may think aloud.
• Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.
• The judgement of others does not change who I am. Quite the opposite is true. It reveals who they are.
• The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don’t want to impress. They achieve great things because they don’t look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They ref
• The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
• What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
• The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.
• Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
• There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.
• Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort.
• Criticism is something we can avoid easily —by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
• A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
• Love is touching souls.
• With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
• If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
• The people who matter will recognize who you are.
• A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
• The result of our people-judgments is that we often throw away someone’s ideas because they are voiced by the wrong person or because we don’t agree with all of their ideas.
• Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.
• Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
• Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false con
• Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
• Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
• If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were
• People change and forget to tell each other.
• When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
• Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are - chaff and grain together - certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them
• Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
• If we center ourselves within the heart chakra and control our thoughts, we can find the balance and harmony in every situation.
• Have the courage to be sincere, clear and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burde
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
• Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
• Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
• Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.
• It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
• People who do not understand you will never settle for any proof, and people who appreciate you do not need any proof.
• At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
• An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.
• To love leaves us open to loss. But we do it to ourselves because it is worth it.
• Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, and sometimes it hurts.
• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
• Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
• A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
• Communication is the solvent of all problems, therefore communication skills are the foundation for personal development.

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