Robert Woodruff
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
All you need is love.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Love is friendship set on fire.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
I light my candle from their torches.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Things do not change we change.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The dingo took my baby !
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
My heart is ever at your service.
Only the educated are free.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Live your life and forget your age.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
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.
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
I'll be back.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
I want to be alone.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Life is what you make it.
Get away from her, you bitch !
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Kind words conquer.