Emily P. Bissell
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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The world belongs to the energetic.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
Bring out the gimp.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
The show must go on.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
You betcha !
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.
I'm going to take a bath.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Honor the ocean of love.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
You only get out what you put in.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
What hump ?
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Here's Johnny !
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The best things in life are free.
Success leaves clues.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
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.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
The time to make friends is before you need them.