Elmer Davis
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
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A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
If you would create something, you must be something.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
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.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
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.
The loving are the daring.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
They alone live, who live for others.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Love knows no bounds.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Here's looking at you, kid.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.