Hillel
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
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Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do 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.
We belong dead.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
I am your father.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
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.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Show me the money !
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
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.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.