Demosthenes
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Mr. Christian !
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Seize the day.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
One man with courage is a majority.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
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.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Open the pod bay doors,
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
We must be the change we wish to see.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Don't ever give up.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Hasta la vista, baby. :
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
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
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.