Karl G. Maeser
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
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.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
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.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?
Death is something not only mysterious but a great act of purgation. That which continues in a repetitive pattern is degeneration. The pattern may vary according to country, according to climate, according to circumstance, but it is a pattern. Moving in any pattern brings about a continuity and that continuity is part of the degenerating process of man. When there is an ending of continuity, something new can take place. One can understand it instantly if one has understood the whole movement of thought, of fear, hate, love - then one can grasp the significance, instantly, of what death is.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Love is friendship set to music
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Bring out the gimp.
Let's roll.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Be Here Now.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Warriors, come out to play !
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
But I would be proud.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
They are able because they think they are able.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Attitude is everything.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
What's meant to be will always find a way
We will either find a way or make one.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
The best way out is always through.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.