Alex Haley
Find the good -- and praise it.
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People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
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.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Bring out the gimp.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
The sun will come up tomorrow
What's meant to be will always find a way
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Never, never, never give up.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Let's go home, Debbie.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Our love is here to stay.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
My life is my message.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Love conquers all.
Great men are not always wise.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.