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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!
You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.
Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.
It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.
Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.
We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.
Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, "I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now".
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.
Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.
I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!
If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too. I have no interest in living a balanced life. I want a life of adventure.
Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.
Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.
You have to treat your employees like your customers. When you treat them right they will treat your outside customers right.
Don't try to be fearless or pretend you aren't impacted by fear. Just try to prevent fear from making your decisions for you.
You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.
You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.