If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.
When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that’s when passion is born.
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.
Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
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.
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
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.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Food is your body’s fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.
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.
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.
True leaders don’t invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.
Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.
The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.
I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you.
You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren’t doing it right.
May you live all the days of your life.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
The way people come into your life when you need them, it’s wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It’s like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right.
See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
