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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There is no substitute for hard work.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
There's no place like home.
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 !
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Obstacles are great incentives.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Roll with the punches.
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.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
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.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
To go fast, row slowly.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Snap out of it !
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
We have not yet begun to fight.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Be the best that you can be.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
There is no education like adversity.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
A simple I love you means more than money.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.