Emily P. Bissell
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
The truth is more important than the facts.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I'll have what she's having.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Happiness is a state of activity.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
To go fast, row slowly.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
In Heaven the economy is run by the Germans, the French do the cooking, and the police are English. In Hell the economy is run by the French, the English do the cooking, and the police are German.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Love the giver more than the gift.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.