Douglas Jerrold
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Somebody stop me !
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Old love does not rust.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
There's no crying in baseball !
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Give all to love.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Be the best that you can be.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
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.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
How do I look ?
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Attitude is everything.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
There is time for everything.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
To infinity and beyond !
Live your life and forget your age.
I think we deserve a break.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
What ever you are be a good one.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.