Darrell Royal
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Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Don't fear, just live right.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
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.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Never spend your money before you have it.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
I am the captain of my soul.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
We belong dead.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Don't quit.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
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.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
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.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
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.
They're here !
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
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.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Children are all foreigners.
There is time for everything.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.