Tom Hopkins
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
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How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Happiness is a state of mind.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
There are simply too many notes.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
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.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
There is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
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.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
To know me is to love me.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Non !
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Keep the Faith.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
As if !
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
You know, maybe I was wrong and luck is like love. You have to go all the way to find it.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.