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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We rob banks.
Do it now !
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
He who has hope has everything.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
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.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
If you would create something, you must be something.
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.
It's never too late.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
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.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
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Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Good morning, Vietnam !
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
We will either find a way or make one.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.