If I had my life to live over, I’d dare to make more mistakes next time.

Your Past Does not = your Future.

Life is not meant to be gulped and lived and understood all in the same afternoon, but to be tasted and savored a little at a time.

An object or person in itself does not have the power to enslave me, but the importance I attach to it does.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

I certainly don’t regret my experiences because without them, I couldn’t imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains two descriptions: might have, and should have.

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but by how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Pray to God, but continue to row to shore.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Paradox… Life is a mystery. Don’t waste time trying to figure it out. Humour… Keep a sense of humour, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure. Change… Know that nothing stays the same.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

People who know nothing in depth commonly assume that their opinions are the same kind of thing as knowledge

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

There is a saying in Japan: Asking a question may be a shame at that moment, yet not knowing the answer is the shame of the lifetime.

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best is now.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

He, who every morning plans the
transactions of the day, and follows that
plan carries a thread that will guide him
through a labyrinth of the most busy life

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Life is a game. In order to have a game, something has to be more important than something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn’t, the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn’t, is more important than what is.

People who do not shrink from self crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which their hearts are set.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action… the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do… They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.

Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

Even a clock that does not work, is right twice a day.

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Success depends upon previous preparation, & without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base & keep your foot on first.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

Communication is not what I meant to say but what the other person received

Happiness is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal

The greatest need of human beings is for a sense of meaning and purpose in life, for a goal to work toward.

If you really knew how little others think about you, you would be insulted.

Integrity is not so much a value in itself; it is the value that guarantees all the other values.

What has a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul

We can never get today back, whatever you did today is gone forever, make everyday count, go after your dreams my son.

It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

For too many life is filled with unpleasant necessities that do not feed the human spirit, even though they may feed the human body.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically, to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

You want to live, but tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Individuals who depart from the norms — heroes, saints, sages, artists, and poets, as well as madmen and criminals — look for different things in life than most others do.

Do not be misled by a false notion of obligation or duty. You can owe no possible obligation or duty to others which should prevent you from making the most of yourself. Be true to yourself, and you cannot then be false to any man.

Mental energy is not a fixed substance. It rises and falls with our passion and commitment to what we are doing at the time.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

My heart is afraid it will have to suffer. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.

You have to be willing to spend most of your time on a plateau, to keep practicing even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or a path, it is someone else’s path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

You’ll find that work itself is making you happy and whole. Not just the results of your labor, but the labor itself. The work itself becomes the process by which you obtain happiness. The work becomes your savior.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

Most people have a carefully crafted, well-justified story about why they can’t take their Big Leap.

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.