Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
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.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
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.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
There are two reasons why people don't talk about things; either it doesn't mean anything to them, or it means everything.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds, You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
Focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities.
You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
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.
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.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Wherever you are, be there totally
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
I never wish to be easily defined.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.
A PERSON WHO WON'T READ HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER ONE WHO CAN'T READ.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
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.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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.
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.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you,it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
I never wish to be easily defined.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
If you want ot go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.