Anthony Pagano
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
All you need is love.
Don't water your weeds.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Truth fears no questions.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
But I would be proud.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Do or do not, there is no try.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
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.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
The ready back gets all the loads.
If you build it, he will come.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
There's no place like home.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
You complete me.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Must you flirt ?
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.