F.W. Nichol
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
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Love is something eternal.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Give all to love.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Success is predictable.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Love knows no bounds.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Security is a kind of death.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Every human heart is human.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
The heart that loves is always young.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
All-righty then !
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Truth fears no questions.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.