Marva Collins
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
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In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Houston, we have a problem.
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Many hands make light work.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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. Discover.
Love is the only rational act.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Don't go through life, grow through life.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
We will either find a way or make one.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
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.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
You're so money, and you don't even know it.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
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.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.