It takes huge effort to free yourself from memory.
No one can lie, no one can hide anything when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
People are capable at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give their best in order to discover what they already know.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do work of superior people.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Perseverance can overcome all obstacles. Even the laws of nature cannot stop it.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living, but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity and obligation; Every possession a duty.
I believe that it is my duty to make money and use it for the benefit of my neighbors. This is what my conscience tells me.
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles; find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or cofee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
Strength is built by one’s failures, not by one’s successes.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.
Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.
Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They’re really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.
You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.
There is a fascination with the idea that one has seen someone else do something before one can achieve it. I knew what I wanted to do.
Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God’s gift to you, style is what you make of it.
There have been lots of other women who had the talent and ability before me. And I hope it means that I’m just the first in a long line.
More women should demand to be involved. It’s our right. This is one area where women can get in on the ground floor and possibly help to direct where space exploration will go in the future.
It’s very hard, in the beginning, to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually, you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you’ve got.
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.
Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.
Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want to see how much effort I can put out . . . what I can endure . . . if I measure up. Running allows that.
Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
It is the ‘follow-through’ that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure because it is so easy to stop.
It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that is is to be found in one’s daily life.
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
If you plan on being anything less than what you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
The fact is that people are good if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act.
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
