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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I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
Somebody stop me !
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Faith can move mountains.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Warriors, come out to play !
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
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.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
One million dollars !
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
To know me is to love me.
Who's on first.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
What ever you are be a good one.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.