Nelson A. Rockefeller
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
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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.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Remove failure as an option.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Success is predictable.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Nothing succeeds like success.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
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.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
You are what you think about all day long.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Live life with passion.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Love that is true never grows old.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Give all to love.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
To know me is to love me.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.