Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.
Keep your focus intact, and focus on the solution.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
If you can eliminate all the other choices, the remaining choice, no matter how improbable, is the answer.
Everyone lives by selling something.
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
Priority is a function of context.
Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways it won’t work.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.