W. Beran Wolfe
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
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The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Well, nobody's perfect.
Don't think it, ink it.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Old love does not rust.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Where's the rest of me ?
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
You betcha !
High expectations are the key to everything.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
It's showtime !
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
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.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Love the giver more than the gift.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Actions speak louder than words.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Somebody stop me !
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.