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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Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Whatever it takes !
Where there is a will, there is a way.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
You complete me.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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. Discover.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
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.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
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.
Love is perfect kindness
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Our love is here to stay.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
High expectations are the key to everything.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
I am the captain of my soul.
The buck stops here.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
To go fast, row slowly.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Happiness is a state of activity.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Truth fears no questions.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
God doesn't make junk.