Shirley Lord
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists. Love is all there is.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
These go to eleven.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
I'm going to take a bath.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Never say more than is necessary.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Love knows no bounds.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
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.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Tonight's weather forecast - dark, with continued darkness until morning.
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.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
Do you like scary movies ?
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
You're my Lassie come home.
They can because they think they can.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
I like to watch.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Success is never wondering what if.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
How many chiropractors does it take to change a light bulb ? Just one, but it requires 21 office visits and 4 X-rays.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Live life with passion.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
This is nothing !
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
We come to beginnings only at the end.