If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
I used to walk into a room full of people and wonder if they liked me... now I look around and wonder if I like them.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
I never wish to be easily defined.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
I used to walk into a room full of people and wonder if they liked me... now I look around and wonder if I like them.
If you want ot go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
Be the type of person you want to meet!
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
If you want ot go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.