Muhammad Ali
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
The best way out is always through.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Sanctuary !
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Get away from her, you bitch !
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
As physicians, we are invited into the most intimate chambers of our patients’ lives. We should acknowledge that unfettered trust with dignity, deference, and respect. For a physician, caring for patients is not only a duty; it is a privilege. Alleviating pain and restoring health for another human being can induce an exhilaration few others experience in their careers.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Roll with the punches.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
There are never enough I Love You's.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
What a dump.
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.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Hard work pays off.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
You are what you think you are.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
You sing-a high.
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Talkers are no good doers.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.