At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Don’t let your dreams be dreams.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Become aware of your own insufficiency.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
Every day, you’re only as good as your last show.
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.
Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences – beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.
It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
Believe in yourself, be persistent, and don’t let anyone break your confidence.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first’. See if that doesn’t cover most of it. There’s not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.
Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set, and you’re working out, you’re going to feel good.
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.
Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it’s just who you are. You’re embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don’t get to see that.
