Ivan Scheier
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Do or do not, there is no try.
I see dead people.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
Love conquers all.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
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.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Never say die.
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.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
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.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Success leaves clues.
You can do what you want to do.
Great men are not always wise.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
My life is my message.
But I would be proud.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
This is nothing !
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Non !
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
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.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".