Pat Carroll
Everybody forgets the basic thing, people are not going to love you unless you love them.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
May the Force be with you.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
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.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
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.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
I light my candle from their torches.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
I like to watch.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Show me the money !
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
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.
This is the beginning of a new day.
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.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Adventure is worthwhile.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
I'll remember you, honey. You're the one that got away.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
I ain't so tough.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
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.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Kindness is always fashionable.