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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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 ?
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
The best proof of love is trust.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
The best way out is always through.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
This was love at first sight, love everlasting, a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness, it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
I cannot stand little notes on my pillow ! We are all out of cornflakes,
I light my candle from their torches.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
What hump ?
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Mr. Christian !
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Hard work pays off.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.