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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The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Never say die.
Whatever you are be a good one.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
What a dump.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
It's showtime !
The time is always right to do what is right.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Change comes from within.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Don't think it, ink it.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
The buck stops here.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.