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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You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
He who stops being better stops being good.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Union gives strength.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
You had me at hello.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
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.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Love understands all languages.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
If they move, kill ' em.
Non !
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
To infinity and beyond !
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
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.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Love is perfect kindness
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I am the captain of my soul.
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.