Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your calling.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
We are what we repeatively do. Success is not an action but a habit.
We become brave by doing brave acts.
Well begun is half done.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Nothing moves without having been moved.
The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
God always strives together with those who strive.
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day.
All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small.
Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.
When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you.
With no desire, at rest and still, All things go right as of their will.
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Little by little does the trick.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
He who has begun is half done: dare to know!
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
