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He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
He who hesitates is lost.
Never say die.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Actions speak louder than words.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Every dog has his day.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Better late than never.
Many hands make light work.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
He who hesitates is lost !
The show must go on.
Experience is the best teacher.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
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The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
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.
Live life with passion.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Make the second effort your second nature.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
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.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
You become what you think about.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
Bond. James Bond.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
You're good, you're very good.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
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.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Forget about it.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Nothing succeeds like success.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.