Josh Billings
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Don't fear, just live right.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Union gives strength.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
Never spend your money before you have it.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
The unexamined life is not worth living.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Hunker down.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
The heart that loves is always young.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
What ever you are be a good one.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
I think we deserve a break.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
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.
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Say hello to my little friend !
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.