Ann Landers
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
You know, Billy. We blew it.
If it is to be it is up to me.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
I'll be back.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
This is nothing !
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.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
I'm an excellent driver.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
You are what you think about all day long.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Love is a verb.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
You are what you think you are.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
To know me is to love me.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
You create your reality.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
Every dog has his day.
After your jump, the net appears.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
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 ?
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
The best way out is always through.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Many hands make light work.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
These go to eleven.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
No man is free who is not master of himself.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.