James F. Bymes
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Love is perfect kindness
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Do what you love and the money will follow
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Follow your dreams.
The road to success is always under construction.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
The dingo took my baby !
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
The best way out is always through.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
I ain't so tough.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
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.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
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.
In Heaven the economy is run by the Germans, the French do the cooking, and the police are English. In Hell the economy is run by the French, the English do the cooking, and the police are German.
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Forget about it.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
There's no crying in baseball !
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
The world belongs to the energetic.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
I don't like your manners.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.