Caroline L. Gascoigne
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Love sees roses without thorns.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
It's showtime !
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
He who hesitates is lost.
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 judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Ability is sexless.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
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.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
One million dollars !
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Well, nobody's perfect.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
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.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.