David Ogilvy
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Love is letting go of fear.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
I'm going to take a bath.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
I think we deserve a break.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
They alone live, who live for others.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
What ever you are be a good one.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Non !
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
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.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
A woman who is loved always has success.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
The dingo took my baby !
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
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.