C.N. Bovee
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
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Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
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.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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.
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.
Every dog has his day.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
The best proof of love is trust.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Attica ! Attica !
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
I'm an excellent driver.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
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.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
Who's on first.
It is always your next move.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Hard work pays off.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Experience is the best teacher.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
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.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
I ain't so tough.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
No wire hangers, ever !
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.