Mario Cuomo
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Success is a journey not a destination.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
They can because they think they can.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
I want to be alone.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Don't ever give up.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
I saw and loved.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Many hands make light work.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Success is predictable.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
It ain't over till it's over.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
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.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Love is not selfish.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang 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.'
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.