Henry Kaiser
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Success leaves clues.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
You are what you think about all day long.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
Actions speak louder than words.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
If they move, kill ' em.
My life is my message.
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.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
I think we deserve a break.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Love is not selfish.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.