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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Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Love is the only rational act.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Love those who love you.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Believe in yourself.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
We belong dead.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
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.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Live life to the fullest.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Good morning, Vietnam !
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
I'm king of the world !
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Remove failure as an option.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
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.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
How do you live ?
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.