It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
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.
Get off your horse and drink your milk.
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
I think an eyebrow can change the way you feel. It changes everything about your confidence.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
I don’t care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.
Bad attitudes will ruin your team.
You are just your intelligence.
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Be yourself, but always your better self.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
With consistency and reps and routine you’re going to achieve your goals and get where you want to be.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Once your mind and body is healthy, it creates a freedom that helps you enjoy life.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Music should be your escape.
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Honor your commitments with integrity.
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.
Money begets money. If you don’t have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that’s generating income for yourself.
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.
Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man – there’s your diamond in the rough.
Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
To become a great player, you’ve got to show real dedication and commitment to football, and you’ve got to be very humble and hard-working. And, above all, you’ve got to fight to make your dreams come true.
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
Only you can control your future.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
