Paul Sweeney
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
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L-I-V-E ! Live ! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Live with passion !
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
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.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
He who hesitates is lost !
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
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
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Well, nobody's perfect.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
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.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Ask yourself : 'Do I feel the need to laminate ? ' Then teaching is for you.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
I know that I will die laughing.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Where there is love there is life.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
That love is all there is is all we know of love.