Indian Proverb
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
In love beggar and king are equal.
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.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
I want to be alone.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
All-righty then !
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
We will either find a way or make one.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Never say die.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
I'm king of the world !
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Real love stories never have endings.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
I light my candle from their torches.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,