Harry Truman
The buck stops here.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
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.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
Strike while the iron is hot.
Live your life and forget your age.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The dingo took my baby !
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
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.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
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.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
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.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
We can only learn to love by loving.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
The heart that loves is always young.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Where's the rest of me ?
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Love is something eternal.
Love is friendship set to music
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The best proof of love is trust.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Security is a kind of death.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.