Truman Capote
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
I'll be back.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
The cherokee people are not "my people".
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Hunker down.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Look, Daddy. Teacher says, Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Security is a kind of death.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf ? Didn't you hear 'em ? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Better late than never.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
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.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
My heart shall be thy garden.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Would you like to come in ?
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Happiness is a state of mind.
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
He who has hope has everything.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
And for an hour, for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Things do not change we change.
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.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.