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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Never stop dreaming.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Faith can move mountains.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
If there is a will, there is a way.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
How do you live ?
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
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.
All you need is love.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Live your life and forget your age.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
I want to be alone.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
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 chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.