Lord Chesterfield
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Who's on first.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
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.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Let's roll.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Old love does not rust.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Believe in yourself.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart !
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Keep the Faith.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
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 !
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Remove failure as an option.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.