Tom Hopkins
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
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Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Children are all foreigners.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
The best proof of love is trust.
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 important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Actions speak louder than words.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?
Know thyself.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Love is the only gold.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
I ain't so tough.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
What's meant to be will always find a way
Have you checked the children lately ?
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
You make me want to be a better man.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Attitude determines altitude.
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When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.