Bill Cosby
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
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Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I like to watch.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
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.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
There is no education like adversity.
Truth fears no questions.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Live with passion !
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Love is the river of life in the world.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
As physicians, we are invited into the most intimate chambers of our patients’ lives. We should acknowledge that unfettered trust with dignity, deference, and respect. For a physician, caring for patients is not only a duty; it is a privilege. Alleviating pain and restoring health for another human being can induce an exhilaration few others experience in their careers.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
The buck stops here.
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.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
My friends are my estate.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
If there is a will, there is a way.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Seek first to understand, then be understood