Quotes

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few blisters.

The universe is responding to who you feel you are.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Be still and present in the moment. Don't worry or stress. Don't think about the future or the past. Don't think about the what ifs. Be where you are.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could."

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

Experience is not what happens to you - it's how you interpret what happens to you.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows him?

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

Either you deal with what is the reality or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Instinct is untaught ability.

Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high a price for it.

A promise must never be broken.

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Who walks through fire will hardly heed the smoke.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change - and to preserve change amid order.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

When you distance yourself from drama and all the people who cause it, your life will peacefully flow.

No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never knew you had.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

If it's your decision, it's design; if not, it's a requirement.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.

Sometimes the greatest adventure is simply a conversation.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.