Edmund Spenser
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Love is the only gold.
The loving are the daring.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
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.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Here's Johnny !
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
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.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Real love stories never have endings.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Kindness is always fashionable.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
I'll be back.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Would you like to play a game ?
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
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.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
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.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Count your blessings.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.