Ghanaian Proverb
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Where there is love there is life.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Success is predictable.
Well done is better than well said.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Live with passion.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
There's no place like home.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
I light my candle from their torches.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
One man with courage is a majority.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
My friends are my estate.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.