Hector Berlioz
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Truth fears no questions.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
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.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
It's never too late.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Forget about it.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
Happy wife, happy life.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Bond. James Bond.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Live life with passion.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Love the giver more than the gift.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Love conquers all.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Success is predictable.
High expectations are the key to everything.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
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.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.