Barbara Jordan
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
There's no crying in baseball !
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Don't dream it be it.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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. Discover.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Love the giver more than the gift.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Love is friendship set to music
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
Always do the right thing.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
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.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Yo, Adrian !
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Here's Johnny !
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
I am the captain of my soul.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.