Roy Goodman
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
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Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
We can only learn to love by loving.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Wicked men obey from fear, good men, from love.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Warriors, come out to play !
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
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.
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.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
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.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
The best things in life are free.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
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.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
I'm melting ! Melting ! Oh, what a world ! What a world !
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society -- outside of a kennel.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
If you would create something, you must be something.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
May the Force be with you.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Carpe diem.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
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.
He who has hope has everything.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
You become what you think about.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.