Madeleine Albright
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.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Mr. Christian !
Talkers are no good doers.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Who so loves believes the impossible.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Keep the Faith.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
Children are all foreigners.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Ideas without action are worthless.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
There's no place like home.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.