Assyrian Proverb
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
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The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Live life to the fullest.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
There is no substitute for hard work.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
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.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
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.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
May the Force be with you.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
You must motivate yourself every day.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Well done is better than well said.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Be the best that you can be.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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. '
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.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
The best things in life are free.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
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.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.