Gloria Steinhem
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
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This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
The truth is more important than the facts.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
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.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
If you build it, he will come.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Change comes from within.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
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.
You become what you think about.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
There are no gains without pains.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.