Levell Edwards
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
You always succeed in producing a result.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
No man is free who is not master of himself.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Where there is love there is life.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
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.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
I think we deserve a break.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
The road to success is always under construction.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
They alone live, who live for others.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
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 am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Houston, we have a problem.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
We're sisters under the same mink.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
I'm going to take a bath.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
To go fast, row slowly.
Somebody stop me !
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go !
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Whatever you are be a good one.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
I am the captain of my soul.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.