A successful man is the one who can lay a firm foundation by the stones thrown at him.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Speak less to the people whom you like most. Because if they can’t understand your silence, they can never understand your word.
It's not trespassing when you cross your own boundaries.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
The true measure of a man's wealth is in the things he can afford not to buy
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night
If Columbus had turned back, no one would've blamed him. Of course, no one would've remembered him either
Tis easy enough to be pleasant when life flows along like a song;
But the man worth his salt is the one who smiles when everything goes dead wrong.
Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that's wrong.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in.
There has never yet been a man in history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
You show courtesy to others not because they are gentlemen, but because you are one.
To walk that extra mile, you need to take that extra step.
The darkest hours are closest to morning.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Sometimes… not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice.
There comes a time when you have to stop revving your car and shove it into gear.
Two word Success Story: Work Works.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to him. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Dance as if no one is watching
The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?
In life, u can never know what will happen next..... so always eat the dessert first!!!!
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare and compete, everybody will respect you.
Good luck knocks the door only once... Bad luck knocks till you open it........
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Keep your face towards the sun and you cannot see the shadows.
There are some people, who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Learn to laugh at your troubles, and you will never be short of anything to laugh at.
Don't limit your challenges, challenge your limits.
No matter in which direction you ride, it’s always uphill and against the wind.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.
Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tyre! , the next morning you will have a flat tyre.
The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.
As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.
You remember you have to mail a letter only when you're near the mailbox.
What has to go wrong will go wrong.
In order to get a Loan, you first need to prove that you don't need it.
You can never determine which side of the bread to butter. If it falls down, it will always land on the buttered side.
As soon as you mention something...... if it is good, it is taken.... If it is bad, it happens.
When in a queue, the other line always moves faster and the person in front of you will always have the most complex of transactions.
If you install a $50 fuse to protect $5000 equipment, the $5000 equipment will blow in order to save the $50 fuse.
After a long wait for bus XYZ, two XYZ buses will always pull in together and the bus which you get in will be crowded than the other.
The last person to be fired or quit is responsible for all the errors until another person is fired or quits.
You always miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.
If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
No one ever choked by swallowing pride.
When you're down to nothing, God is up to something.
Happiness comes through good judgment, good judgment comes through experience and experience comes through bad judgment.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
Every saint has a past, every sinner a future…
When you were born in this world, Everyone laughed while you cried
Live your life in a manner such that when you die, you laugh and others cry.
Security is mostly a superstition... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Seven centuries ago seven white doves rose from a deep valley flying to the snow- white summit of the mountain. One of the seven men who watched the flight said, “I see a black spot on the wing of the white dove.” Today the people in that valley tell of seven black doves that flew to the summit of the snowy mountain.
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You’; that would suffice.
The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle
When the sun comes up, you better start running.
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
I know you believe you understood, What you think I said;
But I am not sure you realize, That what you heard is not what I meant
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
A dream is not something you see when you are asleep, a dream is something which does not let you sleep.
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history
Progress has more to do with direction than speed.
You cannot stop the idea whose time has come.
The world is in the hands of the risk takers.
Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of
If we can’t get what we want and we can’t get it right now, then that’s just not good enough.
It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated
We have two classes of forecasters: Those who don't know and those who don't know they don't know
Best ideas are never sold, they are always bought.
A broken clock is correct twice a day.
Listen to everyone but don’t trust their opinions. Keep reading but take everything with a grain of salt.
Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
There is no luck except when there is discipline.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one.
It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.
If you cannot increase supply, kill the demand.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Discipline is remembering what you want.
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
What isn't tried won't work.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
The best advice yet given is that you don't have to take it.
When in doubt, stay out. (When in doubt, close it out.) (When in doubt, don’t.)
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them
The Cockroach Principle says there is never just one cockroach. If you see one running across the room, that means there are many more in the walls and behind the counters. Bad news often begets bad news.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change
Every lady hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the lion not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Don’t walk as if you rule the world. Walk as if you don’t care who rules the world. That’s called Attitude.
In life, do not settle for anything less than what you deserve, else you would end up with something less than what you had settled for.
Best practices don't always come from learning what to do; they come from learning what not to do.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
If you don’t know where you are going, you can never get lost.
No matter how early you rise the dawn comes no earlier.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Water you are not going to drink, let it run
If the river sounds, it is because it is carrying water. Meaning, if there are rumors, there must be some truth behind them.
When boat gets tilted too much on one side, only one thing happens - it overturns
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
If you win you need not explain... But If you lose you should not be there to explain
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he dosen't mind who gets the credit.
Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
If you beleive it is so; it is so.
We are not defined by our abilities. We are defined by our choices.
All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
The best way out is always through.
I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ.
It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads
Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.
In the race of life do not worry of the people moving ahead of you. Take your own time. But once you are ready to run, make sure you are the best of all.
So when I catch a fish in the ocean right before a shark was going to swallow it whole, you are saying this is wrong? All I did was change its time of death by a mere few minutes.
Don't argue with succes. i.e., When somone is doing something right, you don't argue with them.
If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
Ask God this, if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
Ask yourself this question, "Is what I'm doing today really moving me closer to where I want to go?" If it's not, what are you doing?
Sometimes it's not good enough to do your best, you have to do what's required.
Usually when something costs nothing, that is all you are getting, nothing.
Many people are innovative, most of them fail too. Many people have a great product, most of them fail too. Many people act on their ideas, most of them fail too.
An expert is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.
Life is non linear like a ketchup bottle. You shake and shake the ketchup bottle, none will come, and then a lot will.
If your roots are forgotten, then your fruits will rotten.
When you are the most scared, opportunity is staring you in the face.
Everyone has an opinion, but the only one that matters is yours.
Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how you will handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four! Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Don’t allow yourself to get attached to anything you cannot walk away from in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Beware of all enterprises which require new clothes
Good people, bad people, they generally look like what they are
Remember that what’s right isn’t always popular… and what’s popular isn’t always right.
Everybody makes mistakes; that’s why they put erasers on pencils.
Either you're an agent of change, or you're destined to become a victim of change. You simply can't survive over the long term if you insist on standing still.
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
When something doesn't work, there is no reason to keep doing it.
Dare to think original thoughts that are different from others and commit to acting in accordance with your thoughts with confidence in your ability to think and act. Even if the intended results are not guaranteed, personal growth is.
Luck is what happens to you when your fate gets tired of waiting.
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that's all there is. In the end that's all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn.
If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you don't get the joke.
If you make your heart into a weapon, you always end up using it on yourself.
Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy things.
Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.
There is no man, and no place, without a war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.
Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win
The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.
The people you meet on the way up are the same people you will meet on the way down
To repeat what others have said requires education, to challenge it requires brains.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Every dream has a price.
If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not split and reevaluate.
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
It's not always the most popular person who gets the job done.
Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.
Every battle is won before it's ever fought.
You can't get a little bit pregnant.
You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
On one side there are things that are known, on the other side there are things that are unknown, In between there are always doors.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.
If you want happiness for an hour–take a nap. If you want happiness for a day–go fishing. If you want happiness for a month–get married. If you want happiness for a year–inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime–help someone else.
Being right is not a problem. What you do when you are wrong is the crucial issue.
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
If you have no idea what you are doing; doing nothing is a better idea.
The reason you never see any horse manure on the racetrack is that all the horses' asses are at the betting windows.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.
The inability to change is the inability to reckon with reality.
You’re never broke until you go broke twice.
When a learned man makes an error, he makes a learned error.
The Biggest Difference In The World: The Difference between winning once and winning with anything resembling consistency.
Don't let close calls shake you. As long as the bullet is missed, an inch is as good as a mile.
The easiest thing in the world: Inventing a game in which you always win. The hardest thing in the world: Getting other people to play it.
Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.
Do things right and you will have leisure time.
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.
The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!
I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I did it myself. - Einstein
Coin Always Makes Sounds But The Currency Notes Are Always Silent. So When Your Value Increases Keep Yourself Calm Silent
When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn’t Follow You
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.
Success introduces you to the world. Failure intorduces the world to you.
As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.
If it walks like a duck, acts like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck.
Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.
If you want something which you never had before, then do something which you have never done before.
Never worry about the delay of your success compared to others. Because construction of a palace takes more time than an ordinary building.
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Retirement is the time in your life when time is no longer money.
The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.
Life is sometimes tough when you do not fit the standard profile.
People below your standard comment on your mistake. People above you just give you a smile.
Busy people are often the most lazy.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
There is nothing quite like admitting you don't know anything to make people think you know something.
When unexpected situation comes in front of you, it means you are moving ahead faster than you expected.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy.
Don’t see others as doing better than you. Beat your own records everyday because success is fight between you and yourself only. - Sachin Tendulkar
If you are born poor its not your mistake, but if you die poor its definately your mistake.
The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
When you ask a man a question, you will get one of two responses. The truth or something else. Don't do business with something else.
Aim well. Go where the duck is going, not where it is.
I’ve never had any self-doubt. I’ve never been discouraged. I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute - Warren Buffett
I keep an internal scoreboard. If I do something that others don’t like but I feel good about, I’m happy. If others praise something I’ve done, but I’m not satisfied, I feel unhappy - Warren Buffett
Show up, listen hard, don’t lie, do your best, and don’t be attached to the results - Warren Buffett
After he finished college, Warren Buffett invested $100 in a Dale Carnegie course: “. . . not to prevent my knees from knocking when public speaking but to do public speaking while my knees were knocking.”
Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long stream of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero - Warren Buffett
Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.
There will be plenty of time to sleep when you are dead. Life is for living; so wake up and perform.
Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. - Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee
You have to be in it to win it.
Change is like a train. If you don't catch it, it will run over you.
If you buy things you don't need, you'll soon sell things you need.
Don't save what is left after spending; spend what is left after saving.
It's no use carrying an umbrella, if your shoes are leaking.
Knowledge speaks. Wisdom Listens.
Whatever You Give To Life, Life Gives You Back
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
When Snake is alive, Snake eats Ants. When Snake is dead, Ants eat Snake.
Whenever you want to know how rich you are? Never count your currency, just try to Drop a Tear and count how many hands reach out to WIPE that- that is true richness.
Heart tells to eyes - see less, because more you see, more I suffer. Eyes replied - feel less, because more you feel, more I cry.
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
Success doesn't come to you ... you go to it.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
The man who never avoids what he actually is will soon change and elevate whatever he is
Change is not a process for the impatient
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
Empty the coins of your purse into your mind, and your mind will fill your purse with gold.