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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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
You are what you think you are.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
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.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
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.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Live your life and forget your age.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
I am your number one fan.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
I see dead people.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Excuse me while I whip this out.