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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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Laughter is the best medicine.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
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.
Happy wife, happy life.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Hey, lady !
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.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
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.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Let's roll.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
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.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
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.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work