Myrtle Reed
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
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From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
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.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
The beginning is the half of every action.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
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.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
My life is my message.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
If you love someone, set them free.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
You're my Lassie come home.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If you build it, he will come.
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.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Great men are not always wise.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
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.
Love those who love you.