Stephen A. Brennan
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.
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
One man with courage is a majority.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
What a dump.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Get away from her, you bitch !
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
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.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
It is only when we die each day to all that is old that there can be the new.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Know thyself.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Go ahead, make my day.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
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.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
All love is sweet, given or returned.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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.
If you want a do-right woman, you have to be a do-right man
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Begin with the end in mind.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
Let's roll.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !