Cornelius Nepos
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
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Real love stories never have endings.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Yo, Adrian !
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Practice makes perfect.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
We belong dead.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
Great men are not always wise.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Never stop dreaming.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
It ain't over till it's over.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Don't quit.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
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.
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.
Truth fears no questions.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
What ever you are be a good one.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Above all to thine own self be true.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The show must go on.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
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.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
You only get out what you put in.
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.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
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.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it