Archimedes
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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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.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
He who hesitates is lost !
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.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Every artist was first an amateur.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
The heart that loves is always young.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Attitude determines altitude.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
It's always too soon to quit !
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Attitude is everything.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Love is friendship set on fire.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
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 !
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
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.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.