Orlando Battista
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
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In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
The beginning is the half of every action.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Love is a hole in the heart.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
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.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Do you want a leg or a breast ?
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Whatever it takes !
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
What is life without the radiance of love.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.