No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.