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You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
One man with courage is a majority.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.
Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages.
I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.
Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.
Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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.
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
The best of all medicines is resting and fasting
We're not playing solitaire out here.
Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way.
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.
Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.
Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.
All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!
It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.
Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.
When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.
Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.
You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
I was scared to death, but I made fear score points for me. Fear is right behind me, fear is six inches off my back, that's where fear is. I can feel its presence. But it's not going to catch me... I'm going to take fear and use it to my advantage.
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.
There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.
It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.
I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.
You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.
I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.
Nobody picks on a strong man.
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.
The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.
I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when you're finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.
Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?
Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.
Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.
A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.
Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.
Don't ever let someone tell you you can't do something.
Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future.
When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.
No one should ever be afraid of failing; it’s being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. If there is one thing I have learned, particularly in my life as an athlete, it is that our limits may not be where we think they are. And, even when we think we’ve finally reached them, the next time we go there exploring we often find that they’ve moved again.
Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?
History remembers most what you did last.
If you could have won, you should have.
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
If you believe you can get through an injury and fight back, and you really love gymnastics enough, you can get through it.
Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.
If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.
It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.
Anger, hatred, fear, is very bad for our health
Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.
