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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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Where there is love there is life.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
You're good, you're very good.
I don't like your manners.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
A bold onset is half the battle.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
He who stops being better stops being good.
There is no education like adversity.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Don't think it, ink it.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
I'll have what she's having.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
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.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
God doesn't make junk.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
Think and grow rich.
Would you like to play a game ?
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
The world belongs to the energetic.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
Many hands make light work.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
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An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.