Isaac B. Singer
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
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Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
You can do what you want to do.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
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.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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) .
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Every human heart is human.
May you live all the days of your life.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
You always succeed in producing a result.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
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.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
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.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Never Quit.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Death is something not only mysterious but a great act of purgation. That which continues in a repetitive pattern is degeneration. The pattern may vary according to country, according to climate, according to circumstance, but it is a pattern. Moving in any pattern brings about a continuity and that continuity is part of the degenerating process of man. When there is an ending of continuity, something new can take place. One can understand it instantly if one has understood the whole movement of thought, of fear, hate, love - then one can grasp the significance, instantly, of what death is.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Laughter is the best medicine.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.