Blaise Pascal
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
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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.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
Always do the right thing.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
I am the captain of my soul.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Talkers are no good doers.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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 majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
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.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
You can do what you want to do.
All-righty then !
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
I'm going to take a bath.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
Follow the money.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
All you need is love.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Happy wife, happy life.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.