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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Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Whatever you are be a good one.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Slow but steady wins the race.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
To know me is to love me.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
They can because they think they can.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The best way out is always through.
Never say more than is necessary.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
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 best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Obstacles are great incentives.
All mankind love a lover.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Well, nobody's perfect.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
The show must go on.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Reach for the stars.
Where there's life, there's hope.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
I'll have what she's having.
Love knows no bounds.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
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's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
What ever you are be a good one.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.