David Starr Jordan
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
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Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Do it now !
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
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.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
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.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Don't quit.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
All work is empty save when there is love.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
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.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
My heart is ever at your service.
Live with passion !
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''.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
What hump ?
Better late than never.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
You sing-a high.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
As physicians, we are invited into the most intimate chambers of our patients’ lives. We should acknowledge that unfettered trust with dignity, deference, and respect. For a physician, caring for patients is not only a duty; it is a privilege. Alleviating pain and restoring health for another human being can induce an exhilaration few others experience in their careers.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
I like to watch.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Begin with the end in mind.
All you need is love.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
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.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.