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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Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
It's showtime !
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
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.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Non !
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
I ain't so tough.
The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Love is the only rational act.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
My precious.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
Actions speak louder than words.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
It's never too late.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Our intentions create our reality.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
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
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.