Henry Ward Beecher
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Love is the river of life in the world.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
They can because they think they can.
Whatever it takes !
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Would you like to come in ?
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
No man is wise enough by himself.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
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.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
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.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
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.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?