Alexander Graham Bell
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
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Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
May the Force be with you.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Give all to love.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Love is a great beautifier.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Forget about it.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Only the educated are free.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
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.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.