Hubert Bonner
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
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Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Love is the only gold.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
I know you are, but what am I ?
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
I think therefore I am
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
You're as old as you behave.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
I know that I will die laughing.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
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.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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 !
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
For with god all things are possible.
Love is the whole and more than all.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Love is a verb.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
It's always too soon to quit !
Every artist was first an amateur.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.