Love is the only gold.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Here's looking at you, kid.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Nothing succeeds like success.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Love is a many splendered thing.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
All work is empty save when there is love.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
There is no education like adversity.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Remove failure as an option.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
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.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
The best proof of love is trust.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.