Henry Van Dyke
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Follow the money.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Be Here Now.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
There are never enough I Love You's.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Whatever it takes !
Never stop dreaming.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
If you build it, he will come.
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.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
A woman who is loved always has success.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You make me want to be a better man.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
The past does not equal the future.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
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.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Help me ! Help me !
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.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
One man with courage is a majority.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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 sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.