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There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
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.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
The secret to success is... is no secret. It's called work your Ass off and find a way to add more value to peoples lives than anyone else does!
We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.
When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!
Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.
Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion.
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.
[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.
Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses.
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The family that prays together stays together.'
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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