Gabonese Proverb
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
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The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
We have not yet begun to fight.
Good morning, Vietnam !
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
Think and grow rich.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
All you need is love.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Things do not change we change.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.