Horace
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
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The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Practice makes perfect.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Anything is possible.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
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.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Actions speak louder than words.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
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.
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.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
May you live all the days of your life.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Our intentions create our reality.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
None are homely who smile.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Here's looking at you, kid.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Love is a many splendered thing.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Find the good -- and praise it.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.