Charles Tremendous Jones
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
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Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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) .
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Love is the only rational act.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
We rob banks.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
Let's roll.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Love sees roses without thorns.
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We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Love that is true never grows old.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Love is a verb.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
The best way out is always through.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Don't ever give up.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.