Cicero
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
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In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Never, never, never give up.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
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.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Don't ever give up.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
My heart shall be thy garden.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
No pain, No gain.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
We're on a mission from God.
Find the good -- and praise it.