Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
If you build it, he will come.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
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.
Count your blessings.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking ! Keep watching the skies !
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
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 greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Be the ball.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
May you live all the days of your life.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Never say die.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Happiness is a choice.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If you build it, he will come.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
The best proof of love is trust.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.