W. Mitchell
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
I am your number one fan.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Stop makin noises like a husband.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
You only get out what you put in.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
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.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
If you build it, he will come.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Well done is better than well said.
A lawyer dies and goes to hell. The devil says he'll make a deal with him. He can go to heaven if he gives up the souls of his wife and two kids. 'Sure' says the lawyer, 'but what's the catch ? '
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Your talent is god's gift to 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. Discover.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
Do or do not, there is no try.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
How do you live ?
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.