John Paul Jones
We have not yet begun to fight.
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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Never stop dreaming.
We're sisters under the same mink.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
I light my candle from their torches.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
You are what you think about all day long.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Make the second effort your second nature.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
All-righty then !
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
The best way out is always through.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
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.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
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.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
I want to be alone.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.