Dag Hammarskjold
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
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Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Faith can move mountains.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
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.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Honor the ocean of love.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
It is always your next move.
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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
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.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
They alone live, who live for others.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
A woman who is loved always has success.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Do it now !
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Attica ! Attica !
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
I'm an excellent driver.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
If they move, kill ' em.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Don't dream it be it.
Would you like to come in ?
Hard work pays off.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It ain't over till it's over.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
This is nothing !
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.