Alfred Whitefield
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
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All progress occurs because people dare to be different
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Happiness is a state of mind.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
We rob banks.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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 took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Shut up and deal.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
I want to be alone.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Remove failure as an option.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
I think we deserve a break.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
I'm king of the world !
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Help me ! Help me !
There is time for everything.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.