Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Every human heart is human.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?
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.
I am the captain of my soul.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
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.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Our love is here to stay.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
I think we deserve a break.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
The best things in life are free.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Truth fears no questions.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
To ask the hard question is simple.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
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.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
The best way out is always through.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Be who you are in every situation.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Hunker down.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.