The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
I'm king of the world !
Goodness, what beautiful diamonds !
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
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
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Don't think it, ink it.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Well, nobody's perfect.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Kindness is always fashionable.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Great men are not always wise.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
If they move, kill ' em.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Follow your dreams.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
They can because they think they can.
Be the ball.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
If there is a will, there is a way.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Get away from her, you bitch !
Do or do not, there is no try.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.