Theodore H. White
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
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Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
I'll be back.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Whatever it takes !
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
You're good, you're very good.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Do what you love and the money will follow
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
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.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
These go to eleven.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Must you flirt ?
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Have you checked the children lately ?
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.