Dale E. Turner
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
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Faith can move mountains.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
None are homely who smile.
Whatever you are be a good one.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Life is what you make it.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
My friends are my estate.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Well done is better than well said.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Think and grow rich.
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.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
You become what you think about.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Love is friendship set on fire.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Must you flirt ?
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
If they move, kill ' em.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Don't quit.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The best proof of love is trust.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
I'm an excellent driver.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?