Edward Young
Procrastination is the thief of time.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
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.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Remove failure as an option.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
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.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Success leaves clues.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Real love stories never have endings.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
If you build it, he will come.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
All love is sweet, given or returned.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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 !
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Well, nobody's perfect.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Love is the only rational act.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
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.