George Allen
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
It's never too late.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Practice makes perfect.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
None are homely who smile.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
If they move, kill ' em.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
What's meant to be will always find a way
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
We belong dead.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Well done is better than well said.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Only the educated are free.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.