Kim Wilde
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
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Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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.
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 make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
He who has hope has everything.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Hard work pays off.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
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.
Don't think it, ink it.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
All mankind love a lover.
Live with passion.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Houston, we have a problem.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
In love beggar and king are equal.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
I scoured many websites, and consulted my friends, my family and our readers for these pearls of wisdom. Now I want to do that again, except this time, I bring to you,
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
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.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
I light my candle from their torches.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
No one became poor by giving alms.
The world belongs to the energetic.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
I think therefore I am
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.