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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My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
Help me ! Help me !
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
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.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
They alone live, who live for others.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Hope springs eternal.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Never spend your money before you have it.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
I think therefore I am
Sanctuary !
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
He who hesitates is lost.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
Never Quit.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
I know that I will die laughing.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Bond. James Bond.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
My life is my message.
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.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Success is the child of audacity.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Love is the only rational act.
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.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.