James Thomas
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Attitude determines altitude.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
After your jump, the net appears.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Roll with the punches.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
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.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
We're sisters under the same mink.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
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.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
We will either find a way or make one.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
There are no gains without pains.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
I saw and loved.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.