Lou Holtz
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Love understands all languages.
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.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
All mankind love a lover.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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. Discover.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Our love is here to stay.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
If it is to be it is up to me.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Truth fears no questions.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
As if !
You create your reality.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.