Peter F. Drucker
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
I am not a toy, I was made for soups, salads, maybe chili, and then the trash. Freedom !
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Love is a hole in the heart.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Where there's life, there's hope.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
To ask the hard question is simple.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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 !
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Go ahead, make my day.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Success is never wondering what if.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Let's roll.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.