Thomas Dewar
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
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This is nothing !
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
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
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
You're good, you're very good.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
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 ?
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
There's no crying in baseball !
A woman who is loved always has success.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Carpe diem.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but 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.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Kindness is always fashionable.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it's coming with all my heart.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Can you dig it ?
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Don't quit.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Here's Johnny !
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.