Shirley Lord
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
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.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
There is no education like adversity.
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
He who hesitates is lost.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
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.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Here's Johnny !
Nothing succeeds like success.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Love those who love you.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Every artist was first an amateur.
To know me is to love me.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
You're as old as you behave.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Honesty is the best image.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Don't fear, just live right.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Every artist was first an amateur.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.