Joe Clark
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Snap out of it !
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Who's on first.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go !
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
There's no crying in baseball !
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
What's meant to be will always find a way
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
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.
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.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Love understands all languages.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on 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. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Without a general an army is lost.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Life is what you make it.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.