Jeff Valdez
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Bond. James Bond.
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.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
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.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Hunker down.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Love is not selfish.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
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I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
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.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.