Perle Thompson
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
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To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
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
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
To know me is to love me.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Love conquers all.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
If I had more time, I'd write a shorter speech.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
We will either find a way or make one.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Follow your dreams.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
You become what you think about.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.