Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Help me ! Help me !
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Think and grow rich.
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.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
We must be the change we wish to see.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Do you like scary movies ?
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
Great men are not always wise.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
God doesn't make junk.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
What ever you are be a good one.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.