Douglas MacArthur
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
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Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
My life is my message.
Bond. James Bond.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Do or do not, there is no try.
This is the beginning of a new day.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
If you love someone, set them free.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
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.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
I want to be alone.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Ideas without action are worthless.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Hope springs eternal.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.