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But I would be proud.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
After your jump, the net appears.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
The road to success is always under construction.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Slow but steady wins the race.
All you need is love.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
May the Force be with you.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Mr. Christian !
The course of true love never did run smooth.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Live your life and forget your age.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Be who you are in every situation.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Where's the rest of me ?
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
None are homely who smile.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Live with passion.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.