German Proverb
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Love sees roses without thorns.
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It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
My biological clock is ticking like this, and the way this case is going, I ain't never getting married !
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
They alone live, who live for others.
Great men are not always wise.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
Snap out of it !
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
The show must go on.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Practice makes perfect.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Never say die.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.