Richard Saunders
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into !
Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
All mankind love a lover.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
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 !
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
How do I look ?
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
Rosebud.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
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 !
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
He who has hope has everything.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
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 ? ''
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.