The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
Socialism is… not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is natures way.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away.
Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
Our passion is our strength.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.
You cannot have what you do not want.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.
Light tomorrow with today!
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
A lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
Genuine love should first be directed at oneself if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others?
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
Everything you can imagine is real.
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Courage is not about taking risks unknowingly but putting your own being in front of challenges that others may not be able to.
Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites.
Never be afraid to try, remember… Amateurs built the ark, Professionals built the Titanic.
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centred by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
There is no retirement for an artist, it’s your way of living so there is no end to it.
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
The best way out is always through.
From little acorns mighty oaks do grow.
Error is discipline through which we advance.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
In order to win, you must expect to win.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
If you cannot be silent be brilliant and thoughtful.
There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Into each life rain must fall but rain can be the giver of life and it is all in your attitude that makes rain produce sunshine.
You’re never a loser until you quit trying.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought.
If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Each day provides its own gifts.
Adversity isn’t set against you to fail; adversity is a way to build your character so that you can succeed over and over again through perseverance.
Today, give a stranger a smile without waiting for it may be the joy they need to have a great day.
The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.
You can do it if you believe you can!
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.