James Dean
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
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I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
I want to be alone.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
They are able because they think they are able.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Reach for the stars.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The heart that loves is always young.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
I am the captain of my soul.
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.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
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.
Where there is love there is life.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
Hey, lady !
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
If you love someone, set them free.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
This too, shall pass.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
How do I look ?
If you build it, he will come.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
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.
Ability is sexless.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?