Robert Ingersoll
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
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.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Love is letting go of fear.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Every artist was first an amateur.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
You only get out what you put in.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Love is not selfish.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
A bold onset is half the battle.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Without a general an army is lost.
Snap out of it !
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Love the giver more than the gift.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
The loving are the daring.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Whatever it takes !
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Hey, lady !
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.