To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t you will see obstacles.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
With everything that has happened to you, you can feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are empowers you.
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others.
Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.
Please don’t nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort.
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others.
Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others…By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.
All of us have problems. We face them every day. How grateful I am that we have difficult things to wrestle with. They keep us young, they keep us alive, they keep us going, they keep us humble. Be grateful for your problems, and know that somehow there will come a solution. Just do the best you can, but be sure it is the very best.
Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
People either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.
I believe that we’re as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.
I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I’ve got to keep it this way.
I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.
It is important to have a dream, but a dream is absolutely nothing until you start to consistently give life to it through strategic actions.
Failure is only an option; so is success. Please choose wisely.
You are as special and important as everyone else that walks on the face of the earth. We were all created by the same Almighty Goad. So be proud of who God has uniquely created you to be. You are very special in His eyes.
The goal is not to pray and wait around for a miracle to happen, but to pray and then worker harder than ever with faith.
Just because you aren’t rich or wealthy doesn’t mean that you aren’t successful. Life is full so many challenges, which pushing beyond each one of them is truly a success of its own.
Words create feelings. So be careful of the words that you occupy your mind with.
Never forget that you solely owe unconditional self-love and massive success to yourself.
I always pray, and then get busy working, because I clearly understand that praying without consistent actions is nothing but a wishful thinking.
Success has always been a product of having an unstoppable drive to make each day count creatively and productively.
Not everyone who works hard gets to make it in life. But those who work hard with a smart plan always do.
Don’t let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.
Everything you do and every decision you make should be from a place of good. You should always be striving to make the world a better place.
If you don’t program yourself, life will program you.
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
To sit on an idea or fail to act on a goal is not really goal-setting, but wishful thinking.
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
Ask yourself if you’re one of the good people who successful people want to be around.
It is important to surround yourself with people who life you up, encourage you, share your vision and inspire you.
Success is both very personal and relative, depending on where you would like to be in your own life.
No one can continually insult you or hurt your feelings without your permission.
