Milton Berle
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
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Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
Experience is the best teacher.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
He who hesitates is lost !
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Things do not change we change.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Union gives strength.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
My heart shall be thy garden.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it can not be seen or measured - yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more than any material possession ever could.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Change comes from within.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
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.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
You are what you think you are.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
You're my Lassie come home.