John Quincy Adams
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Somebody stop me !
Real love stories never have endings.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
In Heaven the economy is run by the Germans, the French do the cooking, and the police are English. In Hell the economy is run by the French, the English do the cooking, and the police are German.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
If you didn't know me, would you think I was a stranger ?
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Live your life and forget your age.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Anything is possible.
Every artist was first an amateur.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Love the giver more than the gift.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Reach for the stars.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Success leaves clues.