Aretha Franklin
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
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.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
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.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
This too, shall pass.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Don't water your weeds.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
It ain't over till it's over.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
As if !
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Success is predictable.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
I don't like your manners.
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 ?
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Union gives strength.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Bond. James Bond.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.