Ernest Hemingway
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
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.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Love is the only rational act.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Let's roll.
It's showtime !
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Help me ! Help me !
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
To go fast, row slowly.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
I saw and loved.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
If it is to be it is up to me.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
They can because they think they can.
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.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
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.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
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.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.