No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Faith can move mountains.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Better late than never.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Don't water your weeds.
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
What's meant to be will always find a way
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
I know you are, but what am I ?
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Love is the only gold.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
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.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Find the good -- and praise it.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.