Pat Riley
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
In love beggar and king are equal.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
All you need is love.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Remove failure as an option.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties can not be great.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Only the educated are free.
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It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Honor the ocean of love.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
I know you are, but what am I ?
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
But, in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane but you're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.