Nelson Mandela
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Our intentions create our reality.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
All mankind love a lover.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
I am your father.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
You are what you think about all day long.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
You're tearing me apart !
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
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.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Where's the rest of me ?
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
The best way out is always through.
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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
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.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
He who stops being better stops being good.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
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.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.