E. E. Hale
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
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.
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.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
You're my Lassie come home.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
My heart is ever at your service.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
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.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
For with god all things are possible.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Never say die.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
You had me at hello.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Elementary, my dear Watson.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.