Canary Island Proverb
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
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Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Love is the whole and more than all.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
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.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
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.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
May the Force be with you.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Well, nobody's perfect.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
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.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
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.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Houston, we have a problem.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
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Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
The beginning is the half of every action.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
What a dump.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.