Bob Richards
You are what you think you are.
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Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
If you build it, he will come.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
I want the fairy tale.
We're sisters under the same mink.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
What hump ?
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
They're called boobs, Ed.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
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.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
The ready back gets all the loads.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
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.
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