Walt Whitman
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
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.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
We will either find a way or make one.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Whenever I think of the past it just brings back so many memories.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
The world belongs to the energetic.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
O my's like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June, O my's like the melodie. That's sweetly play'd in tune.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Love is not blind. It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Young love is a flame , very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
Attitude determines altitude.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
I'll have what she's having.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
I am your number one fan.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
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.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Love reminds you that nothing else matters.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Live with passion !
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 best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Love is the emblem of eternity, it confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.