Tom Clancy
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
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It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Act or accept.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
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.
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.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
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.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
If I'd been a ranch, they would've named me the Bar Nothing.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
The good physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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.
They call it a "Royale with Cheese".
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
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.
He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people ?
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Well done is better than well said.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
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.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Houston, we have a problem.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
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