George Matthew Allen
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
I want the fairy tale.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
You make me want to be a better man.
Follow your dreams.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Success leaves clues.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Success is the child of audacity.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Don't fear, just live right.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
The book you don't read cant help.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Every dog has his day.
You must motivate yourself every day.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
One million dollars !
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.