Pat Carroll
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
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Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
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.
Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
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.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
All mankind love a lover.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
A simple I love you means more than money.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Fortune favors the brave.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
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.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
I light my candle from their torches.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
We must be the change we wish to see.
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
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
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 not a toy. I am a spork !
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
Keep away from small 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.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Love is not selfish.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Live your dreams.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Never, never, never give up.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.