"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
"say this to your children, U will explain to them as much of life as U can, but they must remember that there is a part of life for which they are the explanation."
"Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and
punishment will be the portion of those who sin."
"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby."
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done."
"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X+Y+Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut.
"You just can't beat the person who won't give up."
"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut."
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
"Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow. We must fail in order to know. Sometimes our vision is clear only after our eyes are washed away with tears."
"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death,
and therefore you must at the very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."
"Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were the little happy high notes. Would you leave soon? Let me hear the rumble
of the bass, the crash of the cymbals and the minor keys."
"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men."
"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you
control your own destiny."
"Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success."
"To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity."
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the
guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the
prime of life they incite to noble deeds."
"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."
"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self-destruct. It
never fails."
"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."
"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."
"Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own."
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful,to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes."
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar."
"Keep your chin up and you will see the clouds in the sky.Keep your chin down and all you will see is the dirt on the floor."
"Everything will be all right in the end; if it's not all right then it's not the end."
“Goodness is stronger than evil; love is stronger than hate; light is stronger than darkness; life is stronger than death,” Desmond Tutu
"Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth."
"Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings."
"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can."
"Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health;nothing is worse for your health than boredom."