Armenian Proverb
Friendship is not born of words alone.
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If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Do it now !
He who has great power should use it lightly.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Show me the money !
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
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.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.