Joshua J. Marine
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
They alone live, who live for others.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Our love is here to stay.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Union gives strength.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The best things in life are free.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
If you build it, he will come.
In love beggar and king are equal.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
Where's the rest of me ?
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
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.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
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.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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.
There are no gains without pains.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
What ever you are be a good one.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.