Bette Davis
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Be the best that you can be.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
You are what you think about all day long.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
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.
None are homely who smile.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
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.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
In love beggar and king are equal.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Ability is sexless.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable