Richard B. Sheridan
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
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Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Be Here Now.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
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.
Be the best that you can be.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
You become what you think about.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Life is change ; growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?
This isn't a dream ! This is really happening !
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
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.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Better late than never.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Let's go home, Debbie.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
It's showtime !
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Passion is the genesis of genius.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.