John Bulwer
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Success leaves clues.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Whatever it takes !
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.
Here's Johnny !
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
They can because they think they can.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Never complain about what you permit.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
You are what you think about all day long.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
My heart shall be thy garden.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Where there is love there is life.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
I light my candle from their torches.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
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.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
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.