I never wish to be easily defined.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Be the type of person you want to meet!
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
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.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
If you want ot go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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.
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.
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.
I never wish to be easily defined.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
If you want ot go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
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 you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
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.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.