Nikki Giovanni
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Keep away from small 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.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
One man with courage is a majority.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Without a general an army is lost.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Every human heart is human.
Never say more than is necessary.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
May the Force be with you.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
The past does not equal the future.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Do, or do not. There is no try.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
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 ?
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Get away from her, you bitch !
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Do you like scary movies ?
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
It's never too late.
Love is a hole in the heart.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.