George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
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.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
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The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Let's roll.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
He who stops being better stops being good.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Love conquers all.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
They're here !
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
There's no place like home.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Rosebud.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
I think we deserve a break.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
We must be the change we wish to see.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.