Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
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.
But I would be proud.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
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.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
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.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
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If it is to be it is up to me.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
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.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
You must motivate yourself every day.
He who hesitates is lost.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
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.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
What's meant to be will always find a way
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
You only get out what you put in.
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.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
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.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.