Milton Berle
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
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Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
I'm going to take a bath.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
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.
Anything is possible.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
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 !
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Where there's life, there's hope.
I want to be alone.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Don't water your weeds.
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
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.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Love is a many splendered thing.
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
Love is perfect kindness
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
No wire hangers, ever !
If you wanna call me that, smile.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Love is friendship set to music
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
Every human heart is human.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Truth fears no questions.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?