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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Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
I think therefore I am
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Actions speak louder than words.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Work is love made manifest.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Every artist was first an amateur.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
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 !
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
The heart that loves is always young.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
This is this.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
Warriors, come out to play !
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
Who's on first.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Kindness is always fashionable.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
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.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.