Donald A. Laird
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
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Failing to plan is planning to fail.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Old love does not rust.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
You're as old as you behave.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
I can't believe it. Right here where we live -- right here in St. Louis.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
All mankind love a lover.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
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.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The book you don't read cant help.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
These go to eleven.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
They're here !
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Snap out of it !
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
If you wanna call me that, smile.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Every human heart is human.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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.
Don't dream it be it.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.