Henry J. Kaiser
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Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Live your life and forget your age.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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.
Be who you are in every situation.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Hey, lady !
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
My heart shall be thy garden.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.