Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
To know me is to love me.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
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.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
You must motivate yourself every day.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Count your blessings.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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.
Slow but steady wins the race.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Ideas without action are worthless.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
The course of true love never did run smooth.