Jeff Valdez
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Show me the money !
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
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.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
What ever you are be a good one.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
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 smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Kind words conquer.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
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.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
You become what you think about.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Ideas... they have the power
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
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.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.