Czech Proverb
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
He who hesitates is lost.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
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.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Never stop dreaming.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Success is predictable.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
The best proof of love is trust.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Actions speak louder than words.