Malcolm X
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
You are what you think about all day long.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
One million dollars !
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
Happiness is a state of activity.
Would you like to play a game ?
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
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.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Forget about it.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Be the best that you can be.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
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 ?
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.