It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.
Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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