Voltaire
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Love those who love you.
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
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.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
It's showtime !
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
If you build it, he will come.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
The buck stops here.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Well done is better than well said.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Love is a verb.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
The best way out is always through.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
I'd like to make her look a little more attractive. How far can you pull back ?
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Experience is the best teacher.
Procrastination is the thief of time.