Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don?t quit.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is, try to please everybody.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. That is the secret to success.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.

People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I don?t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Many of life?s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

The center of every man?s existence is a dream.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

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

No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

I think we dream so we don?t have to be apart for so long. If we?re in each other?s dreams, we can be together all the time.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.

Don?t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer

You see things and you say ?Why?? But I dream things that never were and I say ?Why not??

Champions aren?t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them ?a desire, a dream and a vision.

Stand often in the company of dreamers. They believe you can achieve impossible things.

A dream is not something that you wake up from, but something that wakes you up.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist; but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy." They told me I didn?t understand the assignment, and I told them that they didn?t understand life.

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don?t take.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don?t have any.

An unexamined life is not worth living.

I?ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can?t. What you?ve got to do is turn around and say "watch me."

People are created to be loved. Things are created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is that things are being loved, and people are being used

Holding a grudge is letting someone live rent-free in your head.

God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.?

?[Whilst] everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.? That informing power or spirit is God....And is this power benevolent or malevolent?? I see it as purely benevolent.? For I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.? Hence I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light.? He is Love.? He is the supreme Good.?

Instead of an intellectual search, there was suddenly a very deep gut feeling that something was different...seeing that Sun...set in the background of the very deep black and velvety cosmos, seeing - rather, knowing for sure - that there was a purposefulness of flow, of energy, of time, of space in the cosmos - that it was beyond man's rational ability to understand, that suddenly there was a nonrational way of understanding that had been beyond my previous experience...On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.?

Your mind cannot possibly understand God.? Your heart already knows.?

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself.? The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.?

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.? There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.?

It is through solving problems correctly that we grow spiritually.? We are never given a burden unless we have the capacity to overcome it.? If a great problem is set before you, this merely indicates that you have the great inner strength to solve a great problem.? There is never really anything to be discouraged about, because difficulties are opportunities for inner growth, and the greater the difficulty the greater the opportunity for growth.?

...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave.? It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.?

Qualities like love and compassion are not just abstract virtues that are the property of saints and adepts.? Anyone can develop these qualities in themselves by doing spiritual practices.? As the Buddha said, Come and see.?

Big-heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.?

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.? What is essential is invisible to the eye.?

What is a loving heart?? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.?

Love is patient, love is kind.? It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.? It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.? Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.? It always hopes, always perseveres.?

Compassion...is an understanding of the unity of all things.? It is an awareness that I is not separate from thou, that whatever is happening to the planet, or to another person, is happening to me.? Compassion is total empathy, an absolute sense of connection.?

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.??

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.?

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.?

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.?

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.?

Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.?

If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.?

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.?

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.?

Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere--in the closing of a door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.?

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.?

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon Him in yourself.?

Prayer is...Love's tender dialogue Between the soul and God.?

Prayer is the recovery of the souls breathing.?

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation--and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.?

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.?

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.?

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.?

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.?

They who have steeped their souls in prayer Can every anguish calmly bear.?

...whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.?

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.?

When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart.?

Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray . . . Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them.?

One of the most powerful ways to pray, and a method used throughout the world, is the repetition of the name God.?

Meditation is not a means to an end.? It is both the means and the end.?

People seek out retreats for themselves in the country, at the seaside, on the mountains...but nowhere can a person find a retreat more full of peace than one's own soul.? Make use then of this retirement continually and regenerate thyself.?

Half an hour's meditation is essential except when you are very busy.? Then a full hour is needed.?

Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind.? Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating . . . The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed.?

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.?

Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.?

You do not need to leave your room.? Remain sitting at your table and listen.? Do not even listen, simply wait.? Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary.? The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.?

...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.?

We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment.? Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions.? It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.?

By love He may be gotten and holden, but by thought and understanding, never.?

The more you know the less you understand.?

Don't keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions.?

I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.?

The best way to know God is to love many things.?

Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.?

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.?

All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light. ?

The deeper we look into nature, the more we realize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. . . . From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the Universe.?

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.?

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.?

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves.? We hate others when we hate ourselves.? We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves.?

...the first step in a spiritual practice is the cultivation of a "wakeful presence."?

When we pay attention, whatever we are doing...is transformed and becomes part of our spiritual path.?

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.?

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.?

To be awake is to be alive.? I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.? How could I have looked him in the face??

We are not human beings trying to be spiritual.? We are spiritual beings trying to be human.?

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.?

As to me I know of nothing else but miracles...?

Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God.?

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.?

The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries.?

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour.

The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.?

Open yourself to the miracle of life going on around you.? Sense your intimate part in the great scheme of it...?

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

The unhappiest & unsuccessful people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived stop thinking and go in.

You just can?t beat the person who never gives up.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty

To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will

I have failed over and over again ?that is why I succeed.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits.

People become successful the minute they decide to.

Your ideas are like diamonds.. .without the refining process, they are just a dirty rock, but by cutting away the impurities, they become priceless.

The size of your success depends on the depth of your desire.

He who dares, wins.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

The starting Doint of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Don't wish for it...Work for it!

He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty.

Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway, so think BIG!

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success.

The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the more luck I have.

Do not settle for less than an extraordinary life.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

If you have goals and procrastination you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

Remember, if you want a different result, do something different.

Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If you can't find them, then make them.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

People are not lazy; they just have impotent goals, that is, goals that do not inspire them.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in achieving it.

ABCD of Life. A - Aim, B - Behavior, C - Character, D - Discipline.