Marva Collins
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
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The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
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.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
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.
Forget about it.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Actions speak louder than words.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
Life is what you make it.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Success is a journey not a destination.
You're good, you're very good.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
I see dead people.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
As if !
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
You always succeed in producing a result.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Good morning, Vietnam !
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.