Albert Einstein

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

If you want to be rich… don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

When people are in a focused state, the words I can’t,I’ll try,I’ll do it tomorrow,and maybeget forced out of their vocabularies.

Think Big and make it happen.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Rules are meant to be broken.

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress even on the smoothest road.