Randolph Ray
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
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If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Well done is better than well said.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
The best things in life are not things.
They are able because they think they are able.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Eddie, you're a born loser.
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.
You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
The first duty of love is to listen.
The best things in life are free.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
I arise from dreams of thee in the first sweet sleep of night, when the winds are breathing low, and the stars are shining bright.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
We'll always have Paris.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
I like to watch.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
If there is a will, there is a way.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
You're as old as you behave.
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.