Phyllis Diller
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No man is wise enough by himself.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
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
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Love is friendship set to music
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
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.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Whatever you are be a good one.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Security is a kind of death.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
What's meant to be will always find a way
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
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.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
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.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Attitude is everything.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.