Rafael Melchert > Rafael's Quotes

“Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life”
― King Solomon

“What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem”
― Stephen Covey

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Peter Drucker, Essential Drucker

“Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.”
― Stephen Covey

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
― Matsuo Bashō

“The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.”
― David O. McKay

“The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.”
― Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Resolution is an act of courage in single instances, and if it becomes a characteristic trait, it is a habit of the mind. But here we do not mean courage in face of bodily danger, but in face of responsibility, therefore to a certain extent against moral danger. This has been often called courage d'esprit, on the ground that it springs from the understanding; nevertheless, it is no act of the understanding on that account; it is an act of feeling. Mere intelligence is still not courage, for we often see the cleverest people devoid of resolution. The mind must, therefore, first awaken the feeling of courage, and then be guided and supported by it, because in momentary emergencies the man is swayed more by his feelings than his thoughts.”
― Carl von Clausewitz

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and 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

“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“Every next level of your life will demand a different version of you.”
― Unsure of Author

“Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.”
― George Lucas

“Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”
― Machiavelli, The Prince

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“To the SICK the doctors wisely recommed a change of air and scenery”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The universe is wider than our views of it.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden & Civil Disobedience

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“One who surpasses his fellow-citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to himself.”
― Aristotle

“There is no knowledge that is not power.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“If you can't manage your time, you won't have to worry about managing your money.”
― Dan S. Kennedy

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh