The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
I never wish to be easily defined.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Wherever you are, be there totally
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
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.
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.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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.
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.
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.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
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.
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!
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.