Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate.
The thing happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I'll try again tomorrow.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.
The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.