Dolly Parton
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
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Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
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.
They're called boobs, Ed.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
We're on a mission from God.
Let's go home, Debbie.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
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.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
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.
We rob banks.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
You're good, you're very good.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Attitude is everything.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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. '
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Here's looking at you, kid.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
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 ?
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Obstacles are great incentives.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
There is no education like adversity.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
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
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Have you checked the children lately ?
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.