Carl Sandburg
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
Hard work pays off.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
I am the captain of my soul.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
You are what you think you are.
My heart shall be thy garden.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
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Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Strike while the iron is hot.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Yo, Adrian !
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Never complain about what you permit.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
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.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
I saw and loved.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
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.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
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.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !