C.S. Lewis
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.
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First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
It's good to be the king !
No pain, No gain.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
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.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Ability is sexless.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Be the best that you can be.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
I am your father.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Success leaves clues.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
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.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Many hands make light work.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
We rob banks.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
We'll always have Paris.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.