Victor Cousins
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
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Slow but steady wins the race.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
They can because they think they can.
It's good to be the king !
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too !
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
It's always too soon to quit !
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at it's best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
They are able because they think they are able.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Don't think it, ink it.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Honor the ocean of love.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
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.
You had me at hello.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Romanticism is not just a mode, it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Go ahead, make my day.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Mama says, Stupid is as stupid does.
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away , and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable ?
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Live your dreams.
If they move, kill ' em.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.