Thomas Parnell
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
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My heart is ever at your service.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
You are what you think about all day long.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Keep away from small 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.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.
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.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Love is a verb.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Whatever it takes !
We must be the change we wish to see.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
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 ?
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give. You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have. I give you thanks for receiving , it's my privilege, and you owe me nothing in return.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Never complain about what you permit.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Mr. Christian !
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Always do the right thing.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
I'll be back.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.