Richard Kuklinski
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
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If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Sanctuary !
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Where there is love there is life.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
What a dump.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
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.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
We belong dead.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Security is a kind of death.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Can you dig it ?
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
Never say more than is necessary.
Bond. James Bond.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
I don't like your manners.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
How do I look ?
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Let's go home, Debbie.
We rob banks.
The loving are the daring.