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.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
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.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
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.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
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.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
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.
If you want ot go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
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.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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 could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
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.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Wherever you are, be there totally
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
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 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.
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 want ot go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Be the type of person you want to meet!
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.