Douglas MacArthur
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
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.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Find the good -- and praise it.
It's showtime !
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Love is the only gold.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I'll have what she's having.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
They're called boobs, Ed.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Act or accept.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Shut up and deal.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
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.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.