Robin St. John
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
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As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
How do I look ?
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
We're sisters under the same mink.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Reach for the stars.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
No matter where you go, there you are.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
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.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
This is the people's war ! It is our war ! We are the fighters ! Fight it, then ! Fight it with all that is in us, and may god defend the right.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The loving are the daring.
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.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The buck stops here.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
We belong dead.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
There's no place like home.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
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.
Warriors, come out to play !
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Actions speak louder than words.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.