Charles M. Shultz
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Actions speak louder than words.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
The book you don't read cant help.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Love is a many splendered thing.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
You are what you think you are.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.