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An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
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.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Love the giver more than the gift.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Do it now !
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
You can't express every feeling that you have every moment that you have them.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
You become what you think about.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Get away from her, you bitch !
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Union gives strength.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
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.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.