George Jacques Danton
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
No pain, No gain.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Let's roll.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
I'm going to take a bath.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Bond. James Bond.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
After your jump, the net appears.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
We come to beginnings only at the end.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.