Franklin D. Roosevelt
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Begin with the end in mind.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
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.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Hard work pays off.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
Open the pod bay doors,
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Warriors, come out to play !
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.