Dan Stanford
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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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.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
May you live all the days of your life.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
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.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Rosebud.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
You become what you think about.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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.
God doesn't make junk.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Bring out the gimp.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Practice makes perfect.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
You complete me.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
One million dollars !
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Live with passion !
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Warriors, come out to play !
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Who's on first.