Will Rogers
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
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.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
We can do no great things. Only small things with great love.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Who, being loved, is poor ?
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Is it just me or is the grim reaper a straight-up hottie ?
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
If you love someone, set them free.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
The mark of a true doctor is usually illegible.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
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.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.