Michel de Montaigne
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
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If not us, who, if not now, when ?
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
He who hesitates is lost !
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Houston, we have a problem.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Vegas, baby.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Love is the only gold.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Snap out of it !
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.