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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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
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.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
The past does not equal the future.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
If you love someone, set them free.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
You can do what you want to do.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Begin with the end in mind.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
There are never enough I Love You's.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Love those who love you.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
I ain't so tough.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Do you like scary movies ?
Practice makes perfect.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
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.
Follow your dreams.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The show must go on.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.