Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
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.
My life is my message.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Love knows no bounds.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Love understands all languages.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
This too, shall pass.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
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.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
Love those who love you.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
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.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
He who stops being better stops being good.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
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.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
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.
Truth fears no questions.
Do what you love and the money will follow
If you love someone, set them free.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
There is no education like adversity.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Whatever it takes !
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.