David McCullough
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
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The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
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.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Every dog has his day.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
We will either find a way or make one.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Love that is true never grows old.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Love is not selfish.
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.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Who's on first.
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.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
What ever you are be a good one.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
You talkin to me ?
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
The heart that loves is always young.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Do it now !
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.