Danny Kaye
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Discover More Quotes From Your Favorite Authors
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.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Get away from her, you bitch !
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
Love those who love you.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
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.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
How do you live ?
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
I light my candle from their torches.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Honor the ocean of love.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.