I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Well done is better than well said.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
There's no crying in baseball !
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Do or do not, there is no try.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
No involvement, no commitment.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Help me ! Help me !
Let's go home, Debbie.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
The best proof of love is trust.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
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''.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Fortune favors the brave.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
If you build it, he will come.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Warriors, come out to play !
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.