John Crowe
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
He who has hope has everything.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
You're good, you're very good.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
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.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
The road to success is always under construction.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
The dingo took my baby !
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
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.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Seize the day.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
I am your father.
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 ?
Sanctuary !
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.