Quotes

Sow a thought, reap an action; Sow an action, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap a destiny.
There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going.
Our first energies should go to our own character development, which is often invisible to others, like the roots that sustain great trees. As we cultivate the roots, we will begin to see the fruits.
If you want small changes, work on your behavior; if you want quantum-leap changes, work on your paradigms.
When we can no longer change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
People are always blaming their circumtances for what they are. I don't believe in circumtances.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
To the world, you may just one person; but to one person, you may be the world.
We detect rather than invent our missions in life.
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The next time your mind wanders, follow it around for a while.
Down deep in every human heart is a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring.
Real happiness...is not obtained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
No one can go back and make a brand-new start, my friend; but anyone can start from here and make a brand-new end.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
You don't have to blow out the other person's light to let your own shine.
One of the biggest things i've learned is that i don't have to always be right.
Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.
One friend, one person who is truly undertanding, who takes the trouble to listen to us as we consider our problem, can change our whole outlook on the world.
When i ask you to listen and you start giving advice, you have not done what i have asked. When i asked you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why i shouldn't feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings. When i ask you to listen and you feel you have to do something to solve my problem, you have failed me, strange as it may seem. Listen! All i ask is that you listen; not talk or do - just hear me.
To my mind, empathy is in itself a feeling agent...because it releases, it confirms, it brings even the most frightened person into the human race. If a person is understood, he or she belongs.
The enemy of the best is the good.
If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary.
People who are truly effective have the humility and reverence to recognize their own perceptual limitations and appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.
Don't expect anything original from an echo.
A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.
All significant breakthrough are break-"with" old ways of thinking.
Each of us is born with the gift of self-awareness. We can stand apart from our paradigms, we can examine them, and we can change them if necessary.
The greatest place to apply the concept of the P/PC Balance is in relationships. They are the most important things we have in life.
People will pass away, but principles never will; they endure.
Give a man a fish, you feed him for the day; Teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
Your life is a result of your own decisions-not your conditions.
Between what happens to us and our response is a space. In that space lies our freedom to choose our response.
It's not what people do to us that hurts us, it's our chosen response to what they do that hurts us.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
Always start every endeavor with a clear sense of purpose.
Doesn't everything die at last and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Efficiency with people is ineffective. With people, fast is slow and slow is fast.
It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.
The week is the "normal lens" that gives us the most manageable perspective.
Plan your week, each week, before the week begins.
Organizing your life around the many roles you play will help you maintain balance and focus on your key relationships rather than focusing on tasks and things.
You can't talk yourself out of problems you behave yourself into.
If you're going to bow, bow low.
Empathy is the fatest form of human communication.
It's more noble to give yourself completely to one individual, than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.
We shouldn't get too wrapped up in one aspect of life. If we do, we close ourselves off to new experiences.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Service is the rent that we pay for our room on earth.
I have cancer, but cancer doesn't have me.
To keep the lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.