Charles Reade
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
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.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
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.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Truth fears no questions.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
You're my Lassie come home.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
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.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Warriors, come out to play !
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
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.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.