Susan Jeffers
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
They can because they think they can.
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.
She's my sister ! She's my daughter !
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
You're my Lassie come home.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
This is this.
Love is a many splendered thing.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
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 ?
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
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.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
After all, tomorrow is another day !
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Nuptial love makes mankind, friendly love perfects it, but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
One million dollars !
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Children are all foreigners.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
I'll have what she's having.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?