In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.
The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You're thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.
Focus equals feeling.
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
A life lived in love will never be dull.
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
Life isn't about getting more. It's about becoming more.
There is no one who does not exaggerate!
I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.
One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Only poetry inspires poetry.
The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.
Leaders focus on what they can control, what they have, and what they want.
I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.
The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate the darkness of things. In order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the unconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don't have.
My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.
The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.
We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.
When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
The secret to living is giving.
You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
In America, one of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. One of the great conservative documents of the world is the Constitution of the United States. We need both documents to build a country. One to get it started - liberal. And the other to help maintain the structure over the years - conservative.
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.
Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.
You can get connections in lots of ways. You can get it by a friendship. You can get it by a dog. You can get it by a child. You can get it by being attached to a cause. You can get it by having huge problems and sharing those problems with other people.
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.
The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!
Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of # movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.
Your biggest problem, is that you think the current problem you're facing is your problem
What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
Give the world your best and you will get the best out of the world.
Friendship buys friendship.
