George de Benneville
Honor the ocean of love.
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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Say hello to my little friend !
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Who's on first.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
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.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Sanctuary !
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
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.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
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.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
You make me want to be a better man.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Obstacles are great incentives.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
I am your father.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
For with god all things are possible.
He who has hope has everything.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.