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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Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Hard work pays off.
I see dead people.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
The best things in life are not things.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Love those who love you.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
The time is always right to do what is right.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Somebody stop me !
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
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.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Kindness is always fashionable.
If they move, kill ' em.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
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.
Life is what you make it.