He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
Bikers Quote of the Day
Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life.
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Sometimes its better to put love into hugs than to put it into words.
Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been The foresight to know where you are going And the insight to know when you have gone too far.
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
A hug is a smile with arms, a laugh with a stronger grip.
Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.
Accept fate, and move on. Don’t yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.
Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.
If you don’t create change, change will create you
Each day is a loan, spend it wisely.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self
Take up one idea! Make that idea your life ,Think of it .Dream of it,live on that idea.Let the brain,muscles,nerves every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone.This is the way to success.
Who speaks, sows; Who listens, reaps.
A good listener is a silent flatterer
A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Do not wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day.
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
Daring ideas are like chess men moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Confidence is courage at ease.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
People are like stained glass windows – the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .
Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
Action makes more fortune than caution.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning
It is strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
Don’t start living tomorrow, tomorrow never arrives. Start working on your dreams and ambitions today.
Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life Is the source from which self-respect springs.
Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
It’s important to know that words don’t move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself.
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade
It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don’t know all the answers.
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.
Visits always give pleasure – if not the arrival, the departure
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Life Is the First Gift, Love Is the Second, and Understanding the Third
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.
Distance tests a horse’s strength. Time reveals a person’s character.
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.
How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment, but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
In shallow holes moles make fools of dragons
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Humor is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
The secret to Success is constancy to purpose.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perseverance.
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy.
Hard work beats talent, when talent doesn’t work hard.
Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
Ability Is A Poor Man’s Wealth.