"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -- Michael Jordan


"There is no "I” in team but there is in win." -- Michael Jordan


"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." -- Michael Jordan


"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying." -- Michael Jordan


"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength." -- Michael Jordan


"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." -- Michael Jordan


"To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate." -- Michael Jordan


"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." -- Michael Jordan


"If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit!” -- Michael Jordan


"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation." -- Michael Jordan


"Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work." -- Michael Jordan


"To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail." -- Michael Jordan


"Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion." -- Michael Jordan


"Don’t let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in." -- Michael Jordan


"Make it happen” -- Michael Jordan


"If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life." -- Michael Jordan


"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." -- Michael Jordan


"Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again." -- Michael Jordan


"The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether it’s proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing." -- Michael Jordan


"The key to success is failure." -- Michael Jordan


"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." -- Michael Jordan


"Learning’s a gift, even when pain is your teacher." -- Michael Jordan


"Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park." -- Michael Jordan


"I play to win, whether during practice or a real game." -- Michael Jordan


"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”- Michael Jordan


"Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again." -- Michael Jordan


"The best come from the worst." -- Michael Jordan


"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… When you think about the consequences you will always think of the negative result." -- Michael Jordan


"I’ve never lost a game I just ran out of time." -- Michael Jordan


"I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat." -- Michael Jordan


"My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn’t stand the sideline." -- Michael Jordan


"The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace." -- Michael Jordan


"I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder the next time." -- Michael Jordan


"It’s heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can. People may not agree with that. I can’t live with what everyone’s impression of what I should or what I shouldn’t do." -- Michael Jordan


"If it turns out that my best wasn’t good enough, at least I won’t look back and say I was afraid to try." -- Michael Jordan


"I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it." -- Michael Jordan


"Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too." -- Michael Jordan


"Heart is what separates the good from the great." -- Michael Jordan


"I would tell players to relax and never think about what’s at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you’ve lost your focus." -- Michael Jordan

"You can practice shooting 8 hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise." -- Michael Jordan


"I own the guy guarding me." -- Michael Jordan


"The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort." -- Michael Jordan


"There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, & I don’t believe there is only one greatest player either." -- Michael Jordan


"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." -- Michael Jordan


"You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that." -- Michael Jordan


"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." -- Michael Jordan


"I mean we all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others." -- Michael Jordan


"Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night." -- Michael Jordan


"Best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are." -- Michael Jordan


"Winning isn’t always championships." -- Michael Jordan


"Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you’re in a fight." -- Michael Jordan


"I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life." -- Michael Jordan


"Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life." -- Michael Jordan


"I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.”  -- Michael Jordan


"If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid." -- Michael Jordan


"Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have." -- Michael Jordan


"My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said you never know what you can accomplish until you try." -- Michael Jordan


"I want to be the bridge to the next generation." -- Michael Jordan


"When I will lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game." -- Michael Jordan


"I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and perseverance with a positive attitude." -- Michael Jordan

"Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night." -- Michael Jordan


"In reality, I never want to grow up." -- Michael Jordan


"How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn’t have done it.”  -- Michael Jordan


"My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes." -- Michael Jordan


"In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I’ve been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball." -- Michael Jordan


"In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.”  -- Michael Jordan


"For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you’ve accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball." -- Michael Jordan


"My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, to dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect." -- Michael Jordan


"Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I’ve done? No.”  -- Michael Jordan


"I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who love challenges." -- Michael Jordan


"I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else’s talent." -- Michael Jordan


"Even when I’m old and gray, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game." -- Michael Jordan


"I know the signs of scaredness." -- Michael Jordan


"It’s absolutely wrong that I don’t want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren’t in the room." -- Michael Jordan


"Live the moment for the moment." -- Michael Jordan

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." -- Bruce Lee


"I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself." -- Bruce Lee


"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own." -- Bruce Lee


"Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success." -- Bruce Lee


"Don't fear failure.  Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail." -- Bruce Lee

"Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." -- Bruce Lee


"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." -- Bruce Lee


"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." -- Bruce Lee


"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." -- Bruce Lee


"What is” is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'." -- Bruce Lee


"When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style." -- Bruce Lee


"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul." -- Bruce Lee


"Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it." -- Bruce Lee


"The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited." -- Bruce Lee


"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at." -- Bruce Lee


"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.  Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal." -- Bruce Lee


"A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough." -- Bruce Lee


"As you think, so shall you become." -- Bruce Lee


"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." -- Bruce Lee


"Don't fear failure.  Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail." -- Bruce Lee


"Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." -- Bruce Lee


"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential." -- Bruce Lee


"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." -- Bruce Lee


"If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you." -- Bruce Lee


"In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup." -- Bruce Lee


"Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do." -- Bruce Lee


"The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction." -- Bruce Lee


"Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I've come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand." -- Bruce Lee


"Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go." -- Bruce Lee


"Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier." -- Bruce Lee


"Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning." -- Bruce Lee


"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system." -- Bruce Lee


"Real living is living for others." -- Bruce Lee


"Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. — There is "what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful." -- Bruce Lee


"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering." -- Bruce Lee


"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." -- Bruce Lee


"The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment." -- Bruce Lee


"Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success." -- Bruce Lee


"If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible." -- Bruce Lee


"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." -- Bruce Lee


"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own." -- Bruce Lee


"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." -- Bruce Lee


"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude." -- Bruce Lee


"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine." -- Bruce Lee


"The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits." -- Bruce Lee


"What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become." -- Bruce Lee


"A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly." -- Bruce Lee


"Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being "wholly” and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come." -- Bruce Lee


"Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum." -- Bruce Lee


"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind." -- Bruce Lee


"One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way." -- Bruce Lee


"The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit." -- Bruce Lee


"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." -- Bruce Lee


"When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style." -- Bruce Lee


"After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge." -- Bruce Lee


"Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: "When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time." -- Bruce Lee


"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect." -- Bruce Lee


"The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues." -- Bruce Lee


"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are." -- Bruce Lee


"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." -- Bruce Lee


"Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship." -- Bruce Lee


"When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist." -- Bruce Lee


"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." -- Bruce Lee


"Simplicity is the key to brilliance." -- Bruce Lee


"To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever." -- Bruce Lee


"When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself." -- Bruce Lee


"Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo." -- Bruce Lee


"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." -- Bruce Lee


"The moment is freedom. — I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them." -- Bruce Lee


"The timeless moment. — The "moment” has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time." -- Bruce Lee


"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns." -- Bruce Lee


"Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion." -- Bruce Lee


"It's not what you give, it's the way you give it." -- Bruce Lee


"Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. — To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up." -- Bruce Lee


"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." -- Bruce Lee


"Obey the principles without being bound by them." -- Bruce Lee


"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory." -- Bruce Lee


"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. " -- Bruce Lee


"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick." -- Bruce Lee


"'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'." -- Bruce Lee

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work." -- Oprah Winfrey


"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Turn your wounds into wisdom." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was anot"her way of being." -- Oprah Winfrey


"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude." -- Oprah Winfrey


"The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning." -- Oprah Winfrey


"We are each responsible for our own life – no other person is or even can be." -- Oprah Winfrey


"What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come." -- Oprah Winfrey


"What I know for sure is that if you want success, you can't make success your goal.  The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead work toward being significant, and the success will naturally follow." -- Oprah Winfrey


"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself." -- Oprah Winfrey


"It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth." -- Oprah Winfrey


"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility." -- Oprah Winfrey


"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream – and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you." -- Oprah Winfrey


"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny." -- Oprah Winfrey


"The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Use what you have to run toward your best – that's how I now live my life." -- Oprah Winfrey


"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings." -- Oprah Winfrey


"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." -- Oprah Winfrey


"What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way." -- Oprah Winfrey


"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be." -- Oprah Winfrey


"You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly." -- Oprah Winfrey


"It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn – which is what life is all about." -- Oprah Winfrey


"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground." -- Oprah Winfrey


"The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness." -- Oprah Winfrey


"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another." -- Oprah Winfrey


"All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown." -- Oprah Winfrey


"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you … the first time around." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I always knew I was destined for greatness." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me." -- Oprah Winfrey


"If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are." -- Oprah Winfrey


"In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes." -- Oprah Winfrey


"What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself." -- Oprah Winfrey


"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think." -- Oprah Winfrey


"When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters." -- Oprah Winfrey


"If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race." -- Oprah Winfrey

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." -- Oprah Winfrey


"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with." -- Oprah Winfrey


"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher." -- Oprah Winfrey


"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." -- Oprah Winfrey


"For every one of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity." -- Oprah Winfrey


"If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit." -- Oprah Winfrey


"I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time." -- Oprah Winfrey


"There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!”


"Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have." -- Oprah Winfrey


"What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives." -- Oprah Winfrey

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney


"For every laugh, there should be a tear." -- Walt Disney


"I have a great love of animals and laughter." -- Walt Disney


"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained." -- Walt Disney


"Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do." -- Walt Disney


"If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart…”


"In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget." -- Walt Disney


"My fun is working on a project and solving the problems." -- Walt Disney


"The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors." -- Walt Disney


"I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true." -- Walt Disney


"If you can dream it, you can do it." -- Walt Disney


"In bad times and in good, I have never lost my sense of zest for life." -- Walt Disney


"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -- Walt Disney


"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -- Walt Disney


"The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be." -- Walt Disney


"Whatever you do, do it well." -- Walt Disney


"Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it better." -- Walt Disney


"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality." -- Walt Disney


"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of  fantasy and fable." -- Walt Disney


"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation." -- Walt Disney


"Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals." -- Walt Disney


"Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world." -- Walt Disney


"At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks… until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing." -- Walt Disney


"I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions." -- Walt Disney


"I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators — a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music — a study of rhythm, the dance — the various rhythms enter into our lives every day." -- Walt Disney


"I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel." -- Walt Disney


"In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters." -- Walt Disney
"Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience." -- Walt Disney


"Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others." -- Walt Disney


"I am corny, you know? But I think there are just about 140 million people in this country who are just as corny as I am." -- Walt Disney


"I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man." -- Walt Disney


"I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained." -- Walt Disney


"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique." -- Walt Disney


"Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings." -- Walt Disney


"When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn." -- Walt Disney


"Born of necessity, the little fellow, Mickey Mouse, literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us." -- Walt Disney


"I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral." -- Walt Disney


"I don't make pictures just to make money. I make money to make more pictures." -- Walt Disney


"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it." -- Walt Disney


"I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life." -- Walt Disney


"I knew if this business was ever to get anywhere, if this business was ever to grow, it could never do it by having to answer to someone unsympathetic to its possibilities, by having to answer to someone with only one thought or interest, namely profits. For my idea of how to make profits has differed greatly from those who generally control businesses such as ours. I have blind faith in the policy that quality, tempered with good judgment and showmanship, will win against all odds." -- Walt Disney


"I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done… and that has been my philosophy on running the business." -- Walt Disney


"I never called my work an ‘art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment." -- Walt Disney


"Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgment, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence." -- Walt Disney


"My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization." -- Walt Disney


"No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives." -- Walt Disney


"We allow no geniuses around our Studio." -- Walt Disney


"We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened." -- Walt Disney


"Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching." -- Walt Disney


"Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature." -- Walt Disney


"Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children." -- Walt Disney


"Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it." -- Walt Disney


"I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether he be six or sixty.  Call the child innocence." -- Walt Disney


"I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should." -- Walt Disney


"In my work, I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous sometimes, is still reaching for the stars." -- Walt Disney


"Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil, and that is what our pictures attempt to do." -- Walt Disney


"My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children." -- Walt Disney


"I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things." -- Walt Disney


"It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young." -- Walt Disney


"Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall." -- Walt Disney


"That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize." -- Walt Disney


"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me." -- Walt Disney


"All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information." -- Walt Disney


"Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk." -- Walt Disney


"I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination." -- Walt Disney
"I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things." -- Walt Disney


"Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past." -- Walt Disney


"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." -- Walt Disney


"We keep moving forward opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." -- Walt Disney


"Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved." -- Walt Disney


"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." -- Walt Disney


"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney


"Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk — especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering and adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity." -- Walt Disney


"Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses.  But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me." -- Walt Disney


"Somehow I can't believe there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably." -- Walt Disney


"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." -- Walt Disney


"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. And one thing it takes to accomplish something is courage." -- Walt Disney


"Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers." -- Walt Disney


"I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with ‘expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions." -- Walt Disney


"I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real." -- Walt Disney


"I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it." -- Walt Disney


"No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved — each one doing a job — each job contributing to the final product." -- Walt Disney


"The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves." -- Walt Disney


"The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it. . . to see whether there is any dead phase. . . to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature." -- Walt Disney


"We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public." -- Walt Disney


"We seem to know when to ‘tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them." -- Walt Disney


"When we consider a project, we really study it–not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job." -- Walt Disney


"You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them." -- Walt Disney


"You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers." -- Walt Disney


"Your dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway." -- Walt Disney
Disneyland


"Disneyland is a work of love." -- Walt Disney


"Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America." -- Walt Disney


"Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp." -- Walt Disney


"Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar – you work to create and have fun." -- Walt Disney


"Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone." -- Walt Disney


"I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park. I want to feel they're in another world." -- Walt Disney


"I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953. In those days it was all flat land – no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships – just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees." -- Walt Disney


"I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train." -- Walt Disney


"I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place — a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it." -- Walt Disney


"To all that come to this happy place: welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America… with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world." -- Walt Disney


"We did it [Disneyland], in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year." -- Walt Disney


"When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it." -- Walt Disney


"Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting." -- Walt Disney


"Cinderella believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him." -- Walt Disney


"Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive." -- Walt Disney


"Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role." -- Walt Disney


"Disneyland will never be completed.  It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination in the world." -- Walt Disney


"Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on." -- Walt Disney


"Fantasy and reality often overlap." -- Walt Disney


"First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dream." -- Walt Disney


"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right." -- Walt Disney


"I believe in being an innovator." -- Walt Disney


"I resent the limitations of my own imagination." -- Walt Disney


"When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality." -- Walt Disney


"Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all." -- Walt Disney


"Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!”


"I have no use for people who throw there weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous." -- Walt Disney


"If anybody gets highbrow around the studio—out he goes." -- Walt Disney


"Money—or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas—may worry me, but it does not excite me." -- Walt Disney


"My biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem." -- Walt Disney


"You reach a point where you don't work for money." -- Walt Disney


"You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems." -- Walt Disney


"A man should never neglect his family for business." -- Walt Disney


"The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together — and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families — that's what we hope to do." -- Walt Disney


"We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together." -- Walt Disney


"We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. … All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want." -- Walt Disney


"Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work — then try to trump it." -- Walt Disney


"Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends." -- Walt Disney


"I believe in being a motivator." -- Walt Disney


"I don't believe there's a challenge anywhere in the world that's more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities. But where do we begin — how do we start answering this great challenge? Well, we're convinced we must start answering the public need. And the need is not just for curing the old ills of old cities. We think the need is for starting from scratch on virgin land and building a special kind of new community that will always be in a state of becoming. It will never cease to be a living blueprint of the future, where people actually live a life they can't find anywhere else in the world." -- Walt Disney


"I just make what I like – warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles." -- Walt Disney


"I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle." -- Walt Disney


"In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character – or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them." -- Walt Disney


"I'm doing this because I want to do it better." -- Walt Disney


"It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements." -- Walt Disney


"Part of the Disney success is our ability to create a believable world of dreams that appeals to all age groups. The kind of entertainment we create is meant to appeal to every member of the family." -- Walt Disney


"People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working." -- Walt Disney


"The difference in winning and losing is most often… not quitting." -- Walt Disney


"To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world. Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish." -- Walt Disney

Be awesome! Be a book nut!


Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.


And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!


Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.


If you keep your eyes open enough, oh the stuff you will learn. Oh the most wonderful stuff.


Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. 


Only you can control your future.


So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.


The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. 


Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. 


Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.


Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. 


You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. 


You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. 


All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot.


I'm afraid sometimes you'll play lonely games too, games you can't win because you'll play against you.


You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.


So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act.


Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.


If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.


Why fit in when you were born to stand out?


You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?


You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.


I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!


I'm sorry to say so but, sadly it's true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you.


It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you're lucky you're not.


A person's a person, no matter how small.


I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.


Kid, you'll move mountains!  Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So…get on your way!


Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.


From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.


I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.


If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.


I'm glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.


It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how.


Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how.


If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.


I'm sorry to say so but, sadly it's true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you.


Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you.


Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!


There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.



Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.


Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.


It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.


Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky.



You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.


Christmas doesn't come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more …


Think and wonder, wonder and think.


Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!


How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?


They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!


Think and wonder, wonder and think.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.


There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.


Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.


If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.


We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.


Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.


When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.


Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.


I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?


Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.


We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.


Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.


I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.


When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun, every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.


It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.


We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.


I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.


If everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!


Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.


Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.


A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.


Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.


Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.


You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!


Trying to please everybody is impossible – if you did that, you’d end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You’ve just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.


A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it.

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed. --  Stephen Curry


Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I'm going to make it. --  Stephen Curry


Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive. --  Stephen Curry


I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that. --  Stephen Curry


I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment. --  Stephen Curry


I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball. --  Stephen Curry


There's more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what. --  Stephen Curry


I know I have a place in Heaven waiting for me because of Him, and that's something no earthly prize or trophy could ever top. --  Stephen Curry


I do a little sign on the court every time I make a shot or a good pass and i pound my chest and point to the sky – it symbolizes that I have a heart for God. It's something that my mom and I came up with in college and I do it every time i step on the floor as a reminder of who I'm playing for. --  Stephen Curry


I want to practice to the point where it's almost uncomfortable how fast you shoot, so that in the game things kind of slow down. --  Stephen Curry


I can't say enough: how important my faith is to how I play the game and who I am. --  Stephen Curry


I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May. --  Stephen Curry


Be the best version of yourself in anything you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story. --  Stephen Curry


Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet. --  Stephen Curry


If you don't fall how are you going to know what getting up is like. --  Stephen Curry


Make sure you live in the moment and work your butt off every single day, and I hope I inspire people all around the world to just be themselves, be humble and be grateful for all the blessings in your life. --  Stephen Curry


Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice. --  Stephen Curry


I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it's been a great ride and I'm not done yet…


I try and use every game as an opportunity to witness… When I step on the floor people should know who I represent, who I believe in. --  Stephen Curry


Basketball was mine, and that's what's carried me to this point. --  Stephen Curry


Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles. --  Stephen Curry


If you take time to realize what your dream is and what you really want in life — no matter what it is, whether it's sports or in other fields — you have to realize that there is always work to do, and you want to be the hardest working person in whatever you do, and you put yourself in a position to be successful. And you have to have a passion about what you do. --  Stephen Curry


There's more to me than just this jersey I wear. --  Stephen Curry


I can do all things. --  Stephen Curry


I love playing basketball; there's no doubt about it. It's something I've been doing since — what, mom and dad, two? With Fisher Price goals. My grandma's here; we were talking about it yesterday. She used to be my commentator. She used to be Bob Fitzgerald for me counting down the scores. I hit a game-winning shot or whatever, and I'd stumble over and give her a high five, stuff like that. --  Stephen Curry


When it come to basketball, I was always the smallest kid on my team. I had a terrible, ugly, catapult shot from the time I was 14 because I wasn't strong enough to shoot over my head, and I had to reconstruct that over the summer and it was the worst three months of my life. You'd think there are no hurdles or obstacles that I had to overcome, but even when I got to high school I wasn't ranked. I wasn't ranked. I wasn't highly touted as a high school prospect. I had nobody really running, knocking on my door saying "Please, please, please come play for our school" --  Stephen Curry


Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don't. It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack or what you have too much of, but all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to. --  Stephen Curry


There's more to me than just this jersey I wear, and that's Christ living inside of me. Each game is an opportunity to be on a great stage and be a witness for Christ. When I step on the floor, people should know who I represent, who I believe in. --  Stephen Curry


It represents a Bible verse I wear on my shoe. Philippians 4:13. It says ‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. It's also my mantra, how I get up for games and why I play the way I do. --  Stephen Curry


Kids put life into perspective. I never have a bad day. Life happens and you get bad news sometime, or things don't go your way at work – for me that might mean I lose a game or not play well – but that doesn't affect my mood from day to day. I love going home and seeing the smiles on my daughters' faces being happy to see me, and that makes everything all right. --  Stephen Curry


It's all about winning. Stats really don't matter, I mean, guys have great series and all that, and people take notice and take their place in history with those stats and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it's all about winning and what you can do to help your team get to that point. --  Stephen Curry


We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. --  Stephen Curry It helps you become a smarter basketball player. --  Stephen Curry


I learned how quickly I actually released my shot off the dribble. I know that's something I work on, and really use in games, but I didn't know exactly how quick it was, down to like the millisecond. --  Stephen Curry


Every step of the way I think you learn something that makes you a better player, and all those lessons really come out when it matters the most in a championship. --  Stephen Curry


The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that. --  Stephen Curry

My life is my message.


The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.


There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.


Peace is its own reward.


To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.


We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.


You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.


A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.


A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.


Action expresses priorities.


Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.


Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.


An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.


Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.


Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.


The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.


The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.


To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.


Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.


Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.


Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.


Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.


A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.


Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.


In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.


Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.


Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.


The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.


The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.


There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.


We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?


Where there is love there is life.


A ‘No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.


Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.


First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.


I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.


It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's
belly, in order to be able to save one's head.


Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.


Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.


The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.


The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.


To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.


An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.


Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.


I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.


I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.


Fear has its use but cowardice has none.


Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.


Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?


Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.


You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.


Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.


I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.


If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.


It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.


Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.


Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.


Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.


Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.


Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.


Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.


The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.


Those who know how to think need no teachers.


We do not need to proselytize either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.


An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.


Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.


Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.


It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.


Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.


Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.


Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.


Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.


Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.


Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.


We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.


All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.


Each one prays to God according to his own light.


Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.


Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.


Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.


I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.


I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.


In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.


It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.


One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.


Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.


The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.


Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.


Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.


That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.


The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.


Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.


I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.


In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.


Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.


Truth never damages a cause that is just.


What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

The tongue like a sharp knife … Kills without drawing blood.


Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.


The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.


Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.


It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.


Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.


The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.


The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.


There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.


Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.


We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.


What we think, we become.


A jug fills drop by drop.


An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.


Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.


However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?


I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.


I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.


It is better to travel well than to arrive.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.


Rise above your anger through forgiveness and compassion, for yourself, and others.


Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.


Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.


Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.


In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.


Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.


To understand everything is to forgive everything.


You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.


Trade your fear for freedom.


Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.


The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.


When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.


A healthy mind and body empower us for life.


Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.


Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.


The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.


To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.


To keep the body in good health is a duty … otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.


Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.


Life is a journey and wisdom is the North Star.


He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.


Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.


Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.


Life is suffering.


On life’s journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.


The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.


There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.


To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.


When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.


You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.



Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.


We have an impact, and we’re worth it.


All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.


Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.


He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.


Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.


You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.


You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.


Our thoughts shape us, and the world around us.


All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?


An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.


Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.


He is able who thinks he is able.


It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.


The mind is everything. What you think you become.


Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.


We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.


Master yourself.


Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.


The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.


To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.


Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.


We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.


Don’t let yourself down.


No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.


Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.


Choose your words carefully.


A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.


Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.


Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.


In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.


There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.