Joe Clark
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
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.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
You betcha !
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Never stop dreaming.
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
There is no education like adversity.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
Every cloud has a silver lining.
As physicians, we are invited into the most intimate chambers of our patients’ lives. We should acknowledge that unfettered trust with dignity, deference, and respect. For a physician, caring for patients is not only a duty; it is a privilege. Alleviating pain and restoring health for another human being can induce an exhilaration few others experience in their careers.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
We must be the change we wish to see.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Somebody stop me !
I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
Love is the only gold.