Joan Jett
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Life is what you make it.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Hunker down.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Success is predictable.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Carpe diem.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Real love stories never have endings.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
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.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Love is the only rational act.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Mr. Christian !
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.