Jacques Benigne Bossuel
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Truth fears no questions.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
You're tearing me apart !
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Think and grow rich.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
We're on a mission from God.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Without a general an army is lost.
Do or do not, there is no try.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Fortune favors the brave.
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.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
You sing-a high.