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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There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
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You betcha !
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
It's showtime !
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Hope springs eternal.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
Nature does nothing uselessly.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
To ask the hard question is simple.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
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.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
This is this.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
I think we deserve a break.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Love knows no bounds.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
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.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
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.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Here's looking at you, kid.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Real love stories never have endings.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Never say more than is necessary.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.