Edmund Spenser
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Hard work pays off.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Love is a great beautifier.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
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 complete me.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
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.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Act or accept.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.