Demosthenes
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
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'm Multi-Dimensional !
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Roll with the punches.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Houston, we have a problem.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
Attitude determines altitude.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
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He who has hope has everything.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Seize the day.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Actions speak louder than words.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.