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It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.
What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.
Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.
I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.
It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.
If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?
As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.
The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.
One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
The economy has made me think I have no power. That is not true. I control the power to change my future.
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Life is a lie if truth is not found. Truth is just an idea if it is not lived. It is living that matters.
Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.
You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.