Virgil
They are able because they think they are able.
They can because they think they can.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
Love conquers all.
They can because they think they can.
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What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
He who has hope has everything.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Ideas... they have the power
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
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 cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
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.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
If it weren't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
He who stops being better stops being good.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Bring out the gimp.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Here's looking at you, kid.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
I want the fairy tale.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.