Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Success Quotes
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
— Aesop
Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.
Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.
Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing.
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
— Dee Hock
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
In the sky there are no tracks. Outside there is no recluse. There are no conditioned things that are eternal. There is no instability in the Buddhas.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
May our hearts garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
— Jim Rohn
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
— Cicero
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
— Laozi
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
Everything that happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
All know the way; few actually walk it.
All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
— Sai Baba
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.
— Amy Tan
No man is free who is not master of himself.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
— Sam Keen
Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
— Plato
He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
— Rumi
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
— Laozi
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Independence is happiness.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
— Chanakya
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Never, never, never give up.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.