If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have, you'll never have enough.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
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.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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.
I never wish to be easily defined.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
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.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
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.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
If you could be anyone, would you choose to be yourself?
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
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.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
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.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
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.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.