Clint Smith
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Whatever you are be a good one.
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.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
I'll be back.
Don't dream it be it.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Hard work pays off.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
I ain't so tough.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
The dingo took my baby !
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Where's the rest of me ?
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Never spend your money before you have it.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Love understands all languages.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
After your jump, the net appears.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Who's on first.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
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.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Remove failure as an option.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Success is predictable.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Forget about it.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
You are what you think you are.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.