Jeanne Calment
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Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
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.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
Open the pod bay doors,
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
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.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
My precious.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
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.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Faith can move mountains.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Act or accept.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Forget about it.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
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.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
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.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
The dingo took my baby !
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
What ever you are be a good one.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Never complain about what you permit.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
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 had me at "hello".
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?