John Powell
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
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If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
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.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Actions speak louder than words.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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.
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
This is the beginning of a new day.
I want to be alone.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Don't think it, ink it.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Bring out the gimp.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Many hands make light work.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.