Charles Dickens
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
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The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Experience is the best teacher.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Live life to the fullest.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Love is friendship set on fire.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
All you need is love.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
The best proof of love is trust.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
My friends are my estate.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Laughter is the best medicine.
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.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
You talkin to me ?
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
I saw and loved.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Where there is love there is life.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
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.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.