Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
If you can lay your head on your pillow each night knowing you gave hundred per cent to your day, success will find you.
Unfortunately these two words tend to describe the generally selfish and materialistic culture in which most of us live. They result not in self-help but in dependency. Our education and our role models do not encourage us to help ourselves to grow, change and expand our capacities as human beings. Real self-help means recognising that no one else is responsible for our thoughts and feelings, and that we are only ever victims because we choose to be. Our destiny is always and only in our own hands - despite all apparent evidence which may indicate otherwise. Learning to help ourselves is also a prerequisite to extending a hand of assistance to others. We all need a leg up from time to time, but once there, we are always on our own.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will lead you there.
You know, there's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit - the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us – the child who's hungry, the steelworker who's been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this – when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers – it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Nothing can be created from nothing.
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Youth has no age
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
Every oak tree started out as a nut who stood it's ground.
I cannot afford to overlook the influence that other people may have on me. It might seem like a simple everyday occurrence - my friends tell me in the strictest
confidence that such and such a person is like this and does so-and-so. I listen and accept without question because of the friendship. My attitude and actions
then become influenced by my friend's words, and I find myself acting and reacting in accordance with the information fed to me. This is the negative influence
of gossip in action.
