Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
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What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Show me the money !
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Sign: "Illiterate? Write for free help."
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Success is the child of audacity.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
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.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
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.
Never stop dreaming.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Honesty is the best image.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Think and grow rich.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Ideas... they have the power
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
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.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.