Tommy Lasorda
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
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A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
But there's nothing half so sweet in life, as love's young dream.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
Love is the whole and more than all.
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Love is the universal thirst for a communion not merely of the senses, but of our whole nature.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Live life with passion.
You can do what you want to do.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
If there is a will, there is a way.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Hard work pays off.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Seize the day.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
He who stops being better stops being good.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Submit to love faithfully and it gives a person joy. It intoxicates, it envelops, it isolates. It creates fragrance in the air, ardour from coldness, it beautifies everything around it.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
They call me Mister Tibbs !
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.