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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain !
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
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.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
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.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Change comes from within.
Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
I want to be alone.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
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.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
Love is a verb.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Hard work pays off.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
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.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Things do not change we change.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Let's go home, Debbie.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
To go fast, row slowly.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Love understands all languages.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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. Discover.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
You become what you think about.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
He who has hope has everything.