Galileo Galilei
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
You make me want to be a better man.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
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From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
All you need is love.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
My heart is ever at your service.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
All mankind love a lover.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Love that is true never grows old.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Don't ever give up.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Love is the river of life in the world.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
To know me is to love me.
Happy wife, happy life.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
They're here !
The book you don't read cant help.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
High expectations are the key to everything.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.