John Paul Jones
We have not yet begun to fight.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Houston, we have a problem.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
What ever you are be a good one.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Success is predictable.
We belong dead.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
The road to success is always under construction.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
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.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
Love that is true never grows old.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Nothing succeeds like success.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
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.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.