Dick Gregory
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
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It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Attitude is everything.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
If you build it, he will come.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
Be who you are in every situation.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
To infinity and beyond !
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Well, nobody's perfect.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Honesty is the best image.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
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.
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.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Bring out the gimp.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
All you need is love.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
For Love is Immortality.
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.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Here's Johnny !
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
It's always too soon to quit !
This is the beginning of a new day.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.