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The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.
No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.
Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.
Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.
There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.
In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.
I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.
I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth
It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.
Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.
With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.
Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth.
Although we are never glad when tragedy visits, we can be aware and seize the opportunity to do good in this world, even in the midst of tragedy.
One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.
Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.
Only through training will a person learn his own weaknesses... He who is aware of his weaknesses will remain master of himself in any situation.
I had this strange belief, perhaps naively, that somehow, if I kept working hard, and I kept doing it with integrity, that I would get my chance.
There's only one boss in your life . . . and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day.
Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Celebrate each accomplishment on your way to reaching your goal. Each challenge conquered whether large or small is a positive step to greatness.
At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.
Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.
I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.
How can you go wrong with two people in love? Goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Love is love, and there will never be too much.
Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.
I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.
My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.
When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.