Polybius
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
We go together, Laurie. I don't know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Remove failure as an option.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
Ideas without action are worthless.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Let's roll.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
What's meant to be will always find a way
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Love is friendship set to music
I think we deserve a break.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness, this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.
Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Don't quit.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
We'll always have Paris.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Girls got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Money without brains is always dangerous.