Ted Turner
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
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To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Never Quit.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
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.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
It is always your next move.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Hope springs eternal.
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.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Don't quit.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Must you flirt ?
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
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.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.