Action is the antidote to despair.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
To know me is to love me.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Follow the money.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
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I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Change comes from within.
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.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
The beginning is the half of every action.
After your jump, the net appears.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
I think we deserve a break.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
They're here !
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Love is not selfish.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
I am your number one fan.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
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.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Success is a journey not a destination.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
No involvement, no commitment.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.