Roger Smith
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
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If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Practice makes perfect.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
I like to watch.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
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.
Live your dreams.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
What ever you are be a good one.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
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 ?
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
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.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
I'm an excellent driver.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
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.