General George S. Patton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
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We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Ideas... they have the power
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
What hump ?
The hottest love has the coldest end.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Reach for the stars.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
The best way out is always through.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.