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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We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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.
We will either find a way or make one.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
You become what you think about.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
What is life without the radiance of love.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
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.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
They say you were shot in the tabloids.
If you build it, he will come.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
The first duty of love is to listen.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Forget about it.
Hoke, you're my best friend.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Slow but steady wins the race.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.