Marilyn vos Savant
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
You're good, you're very good.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Union gives strength.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
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.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Practice makes perfect.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
Security is a kind of death.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
I'll be back.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Every dog has his day.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Sanctuary !
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Mr. Christian !
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
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. '
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The giving of love is an education in itself.