Henry Kaiser
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
No man is wise enough by himself.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Here's Johnny !
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
You only get out what you put in.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Let thy words be few.
Fortune favors the brave.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Get away from her, you bitch !
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
I saw and loved.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
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.
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.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
We will either find a way or make one.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.