Lord Chesterfield
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Success leaves clues.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
One man with courage is a majority.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
Love knows no bounds.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Don't quit.
Follow your dreams.
Make the second effort your second nature.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
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.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
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.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
A bold onset is half the battle.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Union gives strength.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Always do the right thing.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
It's never too late.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.