It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.
Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.
Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.
The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.
When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.
You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.
The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say - "I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He," and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free forever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed.
Don't say, "If I could, I would. " Say, "If I can, I will. "
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.
The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
Stop thinking. . . Start doing. Think less. . . Do more. Do the thing. . . And you will know the way.