When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.

You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

Have a vision and then create your own reality. Otherwise, someone else may create it for you.

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

If the only way I can make myself look good is to criticize you, something is seriously wrong with me.

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving!

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Dreams create desire. Desire creates determination. Determination creates distance between you and failure.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era - it should never leave you.

Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Share This Page