If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‘Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.
Your best T-shirt should be like your bed; it just feels like you are home when you are in it.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.
Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes.
Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen.
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
You can’t change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you’re thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.
I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
Clarity of vision is the key to achieving your objectives.
Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies and competition.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Let your joy be in your journey – not in some distant goal.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
Sometimes we should express our gratitude for the small and simple things like the scent of the rain, the taste of your favorite food, or the sound of a loved one’s voice.
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.
I don’t believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you’re spending your time doing something worthwhile.
Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn’t you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
In football, everything is possible, from the moment you work and you believe in your qualities.
It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Master your craft, be nice and stay humble.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, ‘You know what? I’m giving up, I don’t care.’ And then you go to bed and you wake up and it’s a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy – your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
