Irish Proverb
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
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Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
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.
The past does not equal the future.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
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.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Love that is true never grows old.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
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.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
They're here !
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
Every artist was first an amateur.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
They alone live, who live for others.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
He who has hope has everything.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
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.