Ernest Hemingway
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
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You are what you think about all day long.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
The best proof of love is trust.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
What is life without the radiance of love.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The world belongs to the energetic.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Be all you can be.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
It's always too soon to quit !
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
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 ?'
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Never say more than is necessary.
Shut up and deal.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Slow but steady wins the race.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.