P. T. Barnum
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
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Obstacles are great incentives.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Help me ! Help me !
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Rosebud.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Live life to the fullest.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
The best things in life are free.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Our love is here to stay.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
After your jump, the net appears.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Honesty is the best image.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
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.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.