To be simple is to be great.
If you live in the past you'll stay there, if you learn from the past you're guaranteed a better future.
You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
Be the best each moment, so that each day becomes the best.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
Determination is the key to the doorway of success.
In life, it doesn't matter if you get knocked down, it's if you get back up that matters.
Don't get sidetracked by people who are not on track.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Do not let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
You don’t become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.
Don’t be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it’s the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
What you do off the job is the determining factor in how far you go on the job.
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
There’s no limit to what a man can achieve, if he doesn’t care who gets the credit.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not to with what you tried and failed, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
The things which hurt, instruct.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Act as if everything you think, say and do determines your entire life – because in reality, it does.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.
Only one things has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.
The last of the humans freedoms: to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
Believing in yourself, is an endless destination. Believing you have failed, is the end of your journey.
The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am.
It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
You only get to be a victim once. After that, you’re a volunteer.
To be upset about what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.
There’s no scarcity of opportunity to ake a living ay what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, pr a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will takes its place. If you quit, however, it lasts forever.
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it a reality.
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Be faithful is small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation.
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are,or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You learn in life that only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
You never achieve real success unless you like what yo are doing.
You’ve got to get the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
It’s never too late to be who you might have been.
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to success is always to try just one more time.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we can reach it.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.
You are what you think about all day long.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
If you meditate regularly, you’ll discover a deep, powerful core of inner peacefulness that is the answer to everything.
The fastest way to freedom is to feel your feelings.
The body is a reflection of the mind.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Being listened to is so close to being loved that most people tell the difference.
Words are just words and without heart they have no meaning.
They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Whenever two people argue over principles, they are both right.
You can never solves a problem on the level on which it was created.
Win/win is an attitude, not an outcome.
Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
