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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
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.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Where's the rest of me ?
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
We're sisters under the same mink.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
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.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Find the good -- and praise it.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
Where there is a will, there is a way.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
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.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
He who hesitates is lost.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Vegas, baby.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!