Rene Descartes
I think therefore I am
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
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Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go !
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Attitude determines altitude.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Houston, we have a problem.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Never complain about what you permit.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Can you dig it ?
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Somebody stop me !
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Action is the antidote to despair.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence is an age.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.