Napolean Bonaparte Washington Irving
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
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There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Show me the money !
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
My heart is ever at your service.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Things do not change we change.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
To go fast, row slowly.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
You create your reality.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Without a general an army is lost.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
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.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
High expectations are the key to everything.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
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 !
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
You're good, you're very good.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
I think therefore I am
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.