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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Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Bond. James Bond.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
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.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
The dingo took my baby !
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
They alone live, who live for others.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Real love stories never have endings.
Don't dream it be it.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Bring out the gimp.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Live your dreams.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.