Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God.
When you're in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you're doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.
And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of a Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic? Who can dispute that they did their bloody deeds by claiming to be establishing a "new man" and a religion-free utopia? These were mass murders performed with atheism as a central part of their ideological inspiration, they were not mass murders done by people who simply happened to be atheist.
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.
I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.
Life is never easy for those who dream.
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!
Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.
Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.
Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.
Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.
Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul.
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.
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