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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Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Non !
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
In Heaven the economy is run by the Germans, the French do the cooking, and the police are English. In Hell the economy is run by the French, the English do the cooking, and the police are German.
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.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Great men are not always wise.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Snap out of it !
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Attitude determines altitude.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
You betcha !
If you would create something, you must be something.
A woman who is loved always has success.
No matter where you go, there you are.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Keep away from small 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.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.