Louis Pasteur
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
As if !
No involvement, no commitment.
Press forsake! Go ahead and press 'forsake now' !
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Hard work pays off.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
You complete me.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
They are able because they think they are able.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
There's no crying in baseball !
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Houston, we have a problem.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
What is life without the radiance of love.
We will either find a way or make one.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
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.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.