Margaret Thatcher
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
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One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Whatever it takes !
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
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.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
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.
Children are all foreigners.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Do it now !
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
You betcha !
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
We'll always have Paris.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Don't dream it be it.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Kind words conquer.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
There are two primary choices in life, to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.