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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To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
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.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Believe in yourself.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
I think therefore I am
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Warriors, come out to play !
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The loving are the daring.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
All mankind love a lover.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
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.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.