Samuel Beckett
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Don't water your weeds.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
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.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
The best way out is always through.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Must you flirt ?
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
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.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I'm going to take a bath.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Every dog has his day.
Rosebud.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
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.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
Let's go home, Debbie.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Old love does not rust.
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.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
Experience is the best teacher.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Let thy words be few.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Whatever it takes !
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
I'm king of the world !
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Love is something eternal.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.