Few Famous Sayings (Quotes)

There is Nothing So Practical as a Good Theory - Kurt Lewin
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it - Kurt Lewin

Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments - Paulo Coelho

Happiness
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own  He who, secure within can say  To-morrow, do they worst, for I have liv’d today. - Horace
Have no anxiety for the tomorrow. - Jesus
Think that this day will never dawn again - Dante

Introspection
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. - Leonardo da Vinci
The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself - Rumi
Detection of inner negativity is not a negative act, but a courageously positive act that makes you a new person. - Vernon Howard

Discipline
More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
Discipline is a practice of self-love, self-respect, and surrender that results in freedom

Ego
The ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit.

Attempt
Your attempt may fail, but never fail to attempt.
If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion.

Failure
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. - Mary Kay
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy
In the end, the only people who fail are those who don't try. - David Viscott
The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of
failure. - Thomas Watson, Sr. (founder of IBM)

Tough
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going.
More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.
Bruce Lee said it well in these words 'Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.'

Experiment/Change
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
You must wish to consume yourself in your own flame how could you wish to become new unless you had first become ashes? - Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a
pond. - Sir Ramakrishna

Confidence/Believe
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. - Henry Ford
Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.

Age
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Dream
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Pain
The pain shows you what's left to investigate. - Byron Katie

Hard work
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have. - Thomas Jefferson
The difference between a creative person and a creative producer is hard work.
Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

Success
Success is the result of good judgment, good judgment is a result of experience, experience is often the result of bad judgment.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...

Pleasure
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

Fear
F.E.A.R is False Enemy Appearing Real.
Bravery is not absence of fear but, the courage to do something despite of fear.
Always, always, always, always, always do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Fear is excitement without the breath
Fear is imaginary just as faith is imaginary-and both being imaginary, they are subject to your mental control

Results
The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about
results. - The Bhagavad Gita.

Proverbs
When you pray, move your feet.
You see everyone in life twice. - German proverb

Genius
Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are the roads of genius - William Blake

Criticism
Don't pay any attention to the critics-don't even ignore them. - Samuel Goldwyn

Patience
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. - Epictetus

Courage
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anaïs Nin

Enemy
More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm. - Buddha

Practice
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
Let’s stop pursuing happiness and start practicing it. We do that by practicing new habits. - Marci Shimoff

Dale Carnegie's quote
- Be Willing to Have It So...
- Rest *BEFORE* You Get Tired...
- Don’t cross your bridges until you come to them
- Don’t cry over spilt milk
- Shut the iron doors on the past and the future. Live in Day-tight Compartments


Abraham Maslow's admonition that What one can be, one MUST be.