Janet Erskine Stuart
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
What's meant to be will always find a way
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Seize the day.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Bring out the gimp.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
I am your number one fan.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
The best things in life are free.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
But I would be proud.
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.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
What ever you are be a good one.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Say hello to my little friend !
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Without a general an army is lost.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
These go to eleven.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Know thyself.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.