If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
You don’t get what you want in life. You get who you are!
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Once you label me you negate me.
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
I like refried beans. That’s why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they’re just as good and we’re just wasting time. You don’t have to fry them again after all.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
It’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
You know what’s funny to me? Attitude.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.
If you never try, you’ll never know what you are capable of.
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.
Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.
Bullying is never fun, it’s a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
