John Muir
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant ?
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Never complain about what you permit.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
One man with courage is a majority.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
I am your father.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Our intentions create our reality.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Let's roll.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
The loving are the daring.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Come, let us make love deathless.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
I saw and loved.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
I light my candle from their torches.
As if !
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Be afraid. Be very afraid.