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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It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The best proof of love is trust.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Warriors, come out to play !
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Practice makes perfect.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
You make me want to be a better man.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Love those who love you.
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.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Only the educated are free.
I'm king of the world !
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly , what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Love is not selfish.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Kindness is always fashionable.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
You're as old as you behave.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
You had me at "hello".
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
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.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.