If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Creativity Quotes
Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.
We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, and wear Reebok.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
The human spirit must prevail over technology.
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
— Laozi
Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
No garden is without its weeds.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.
I'll prepare and someday my chance will come.
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
Quality is not an act; it is a habit.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
— Cicero
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
— Ovid
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
You can do it if you believe you can!
Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
— Pericles
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Write your plans in pencil and give God the eraser.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
— Laozi
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
— Cicero
Well done is better than well said.
Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.