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Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.
Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.
When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself.
I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.
Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.
Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.
On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.
Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.
Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.
If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.
And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.
I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.
Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.
When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.
There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates!
There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.
You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.
The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?