General Omar Bradley
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.
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One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
I saw and loved.
There are never enough I Love You's.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I am your number one fan.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Union gives strength.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
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Happiness is a state of mind.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Love understands all languages.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
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.
Security is a kind of death.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
A bold onset is half the battle.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
God doesn't make junk.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Attica ! Attica !
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.