Nikki Giovanni
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I'll be taking these huggies and whatever cash you got.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Hard work pays off.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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 ?
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
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.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
It's showtime !
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
There is no substitute for hard work.
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.