Dexter Yager
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
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It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
You make me want to be a better man.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
In Heaven the economy is run by the Germans, the French do the cooking, and the police are English. In Hell the economy is run by the French, the English do the cooking, and the police are German.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
May the Force be with you.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Attitude is everything.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
I know you are, but what am I ?
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
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.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
The best things in life are not things.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
I saw and loved.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
What hump ?
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.