Cecil B. DeMille
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
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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.
Life is change ; growth is optional. Choose wisely.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
He who hesitates is lost.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Act or accept.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
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 willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Do you like scary movies ?
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Love is a great beautifier.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
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.
May the Force be with you.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
You complete me.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
We belong dead.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
The loving are the daring.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
There is no education like adversity.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.