Thomas J. Watson
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.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
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After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
My friends are my estate.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
When you shoot a mime, should you use blanks ?
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Real love stories never have endings.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Love is friendship set on fire.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Come here, Norman. Hurry up. The loons ! The loons ! They're welcoming us back.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Most appreciated after dinner speech - I'll pay the check.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
If there is a will, there is a way.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts, of kindness and of love.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.