Douglas MacArthur
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Love is the whole and more than all.
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.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
What a dump.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
We belong dead.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Live your dreams.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Our love is here to stay.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
I saw and loved.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
To go fast, row slowly.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Talkers are no good doers.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Good morning, Vietnam !
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Live with passion.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
You become what you think about.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
We're on a mission from God.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
You're as old as you behave.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !