Heraclitus
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
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The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Don't dream it be it.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Great men are not always wise.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
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.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
No involvement, no commitment.
Happiness is a choice.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
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.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
Live with passion.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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.
Truth fears no questions.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
The best way out is always through.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
You complete me.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
May the Force be with you.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Nothing succeeds like success.
They are able because they think they are able.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
I light my candle from their torches.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.