Richard Saunders
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
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There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
If you build it, he will come.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
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 !
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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) .
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Don't water your weeds.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
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.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
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.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Happiness is a state of mind.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
A boy's best friend is his mother.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.