Orville Wright
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
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.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Keep away from 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.
Keep away from 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.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
Live with passion !
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
You are what you think you are.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Live with passion.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
You're good, you're very good.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
Love those who love you.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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 ?
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
I'll be back.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
Do you like scary movies ?
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Security is a kind of death.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
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.
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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Come, let us make love deathless.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Great oaks from little acorns grow
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
It's hard to believe that you haven't had sex for two hundred years.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
A healthy outside starts from the inside