Peter Ustinov
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Every artist was first an amateur.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
The best things in life are free.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
There's no place like home.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Love is when reality is better than your dreams.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
God doesn't make junk.
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
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.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
What hump ?
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Truth fears no questions.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
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.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.