George de Benneville
Honor the ocean of love.
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Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
I am the captain of my soul.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Snap out of it !
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
To infinity and beyond !
You only get out what you put in.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
It is always your next move.
Ability is sexless.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
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.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
Give all to love.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
You're tearing me apart !
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
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.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.