Marcel Proust
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Old love does not rust.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
Love is something eternal.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
What's another word for thesaurus ?
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
To know me is to love me.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Vegas, baby.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
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.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
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 ?
What ever you are be a good one.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
We're sisters under the same mink.
I know you are, but what am I ?
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
After your jump, the net appears.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
No pain, No gain.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
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 ?
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.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".