Nós podemos facilmente perdoar uma criança que tem medo do escuro; a tragédia real é quando os homens têm medo da luz.

Cada um de nós escreve sua própria história. Alguns a redigem como poemas enquanto outros traçam garranchos indecifráveis.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you lived here. This is to have succeeded.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate.

Todas as manhăs ela deixa os sonhos na cama, acorda e põe sua roupa de viver.

Desistir… eu já pensei seriamente nisso, mas nunca me levei realmente a sério; é que tem mais chão nos meus olhos do que o cansaço nas minhas pernas, mais esperança nos meus passos, do que tristeza nos meus ombros, mais estrada no meu coração do que medo na minha cabeça.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear

The truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived; it is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Don’t think. You already know what you have to do, and you know how to do it. What’s stopping you?

The drive to close the gap between near-perfect and perfect is the difference between great and unstoppable.

From this point, your strategy is to make everyone else get on your level, you’re not going down to theirs. You’re not competing with anyone else, ever again. They’re going to have to compete with you. From now on, the end result is all that matters.

The way to enjoy life best is to wrap up one goal and start right on the next one. Don’t linger too long at the table of success, the only way to enjoy another meal is to get hungry.

Implementing extreme ownership requires checking your ego and operating with a high degree of humility. Admitting mistakes, taking ownership and developing a plan to overcome challenges are integral to any successful team.

Wherever you are, make sure you’re there.

Defrontado pelo erro, corrija-o primeiramente em você e, em seguida, nos outros, sem violência e sem ódio.

No que diz respeito ao empenho, ao compromisso, ao esforço, a dedicação, não existe meio termo. Ou você faz uma coisa bem feita ou não faz.

Algum dia em qualquer parte, em qualquer lugar, indubitavelmente, te encontrarás contigo mesmo, e esta, só esta, pode ser a mais feliz ou a mais amarga de tuas horas.

Nada em mim foi covarde, nem mesmo as desistências: desistir, ainda que não pareça, foi meu grande gesto de coragem.

Experiência não é o que acontece com um homem; é o que um homem faz com o que lhe acontece.

O ser humano nasce com uma inclinação para a virtude.

Que os vossos esforços desafiem as impossibilidades, lembrai-vos de que as grandes coisas do homem foram conquistadas do que parecia impossível.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

"Waste No More Time Arguing What A Good Man Should Be. Be One."

Concentrate every minute like a Roman— like a man— on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can— if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.”

People find pleasure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

First ask yourself who you want to be, and then do what you have to do.

If you must be affected by other people’s misfortunes, show them pity instead of contempt. Drop this readiness to hate.

For I am not Eternity, but a human being — a part of the whole, as an hour is part of the day. I must come like the hour, and like the hour must pass!.

Never accept an inferior position to anyone. It is the strongest spirit that wins, not the most expensive sword.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.

“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. … The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.”

Tenha paciência. Todas as coisas são difíceis antes de serem fáceis.

Nunca estrague o seu passado por um presente que não tem futuro.

-– Sim, sou vendedor de sonhos.
….
— Como assim? Que produtos você vende?
— Eu procuro vender coragem para os inseguros, ousadia para os fóbicos, alegria para os que perderam o encanto pela vida, sensatez para os incautos, críticas para os pensadores."

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

You don’t lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see light

The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it.

The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become!

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

O grande sofrimento do Criador: tirar tudo de um nada qualquer, e depois ser julgado por qualquer um que nem com todos os tudos do mundo seria capaz de fazer um simples quase!!!

A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Não somos o que deveríamos ser. Não somos o que gostaríamos de ser. Não somos o que iremos ser. Mas, graças a Deus, não somos mais quem éramos.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Uma vez que as guerras se iniciam nas mentes dos homens, é nas mentes dos homens que devem ser construídas as defesas de paz

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

The way you train reflects the way you fight. People say I’m not going to train too hard, I’m going to do this in training, but when it’s time to fight I’m going to step up. There is no step up. You’re just going to do what you did every day.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

What you get by achieving your goals is as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

A leader should do anything, but not everything.

We learn from reflection on experience, not from experience itself.

It is in the power of remembering that the self’s ultimate freedom consists. I am free because I remember.

Too many people bring the best of themselves to work and take the leftovers home

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

The next time I feel the urge to criticise I will ask myself two questions: given the same circumstances and no hindsight would I have done better, and who asked me for my opinion in the first place?

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

Diversas coisas capturam o seu olhar, mas persistem apenas aquelas que capturam seu coração.

Apologize for your mistakes, not your feelings.

De repente, e sem que você saiba exatamente como, o Universo parece usar seus dedos artesãos para trazer o que você espera, o que, sem dúvida, você merece e sua própria esperança tinha dado com perdido…

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face. And rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

Mesmo que as amemos, as flores caem. Mesmo que as odiemos, as ervas daninhas crescem.
A vida não depende de nós.

Conhecimento é saber que o tomate é uma fruta. Sabedoria é não colocá-lo em uma salada de frutas.

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You have to know that you'll always make the best decision. Always. If, in the future, you find out it was not the best, it is because you have learned something new that you didn't know when you made your decision.

Eu sou o lobo. Você me olha e não tem medo. Até que descobre que eu faço o que precisa ser feito.   TODOS. OS. DIAS.

I am the wolf. You look at me and you are not scared at first. Until you learn I do what needs to be done. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

Mesmo que as amemos, as flores caem. Mesmo que as odiemos, as ervas daninhas crescem.
A vida não depende de nós.

Quem conversa com tolos, só se enche de tolices.

À beira do abismo me cresceram asas.

Estratégias ditam “o quê” fazer. Valores dizem “como” fazer.

O verdadeiro progresso e crescimento pessoal só acontece quando sentamos os três à mesa para um debate honesto: nós mesmos, nossos anjos, e nossos demônios.

Devemos cuidar com o que dizemos e o que fazemos. Quando brilhamos sozinhos, criamos sombras; quando brilhamos juntos, criamos estrelas.