Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in the state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
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The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The secret of success is conviction and persistence.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.
Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
