Jeff Valdez
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.
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Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
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.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
You had me at "hello".
Strike while the iron is hot.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
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.
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.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The buck stops here.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
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.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe Ive even loved you before I saw you.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
What ever you are be a good one.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
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.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
We will either find a way or make one.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Better late than never.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.