Roy Goodman
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Love the giver more than the gift.
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.
What's meant to be will always find a way
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Don't dream it be it.
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.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
It's always too soon to quit !
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
It ain't over till it's over.
These go to eleven.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
All-righty then !
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
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.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
We can only learn to love by loving.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Faith can move mountains.