George S. Patton
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
The show must go on.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
These go to eleven.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
You're tearing me apart !
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
To infinity and beyond !
There is no education like adversity.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
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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.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Only the educated are free.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
I know you are, but what am I ?
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
My precious.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
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.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Hard work pays off.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
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.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Whatever you are be a good one.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.