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.
I never wish to be easily defined.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Be the type of person you want to meet!
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
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.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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 can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
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.
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 only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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.
Be the type of person you want to meet!
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
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.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
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 best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
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.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.