Jim Croce
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
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Strike while the iron is hot.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
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.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
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.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Believe in yourself.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
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.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
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.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Follow your dreams.
Reach for the stars.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Love like you'll never be hurt.
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.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
If they move, kill ' em.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
I know that I will die laughing.