Peter Ustinov
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The best way out is always through.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Live life to the fullest.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Love the giver more than the gift.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me ?
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
High expectations are the key to everything.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
I think therefore I am
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Snap out of it !
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
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.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Get busy livin, or get busy dyin'.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
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 sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
You betcha !
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?