The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
I never wish to be easily defined.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
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 PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
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.
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 love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
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.
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
I never wish to be easily defined.
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.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
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.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
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.
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 time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Wherever you are, be there totally
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
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 truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
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.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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 only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.