William A. Ward
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Don't let life discourage you , everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Never complain about what you permit.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
With my brains and your looks, we could go places.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Love is friendship set to music
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
If you love someone, set them free.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Love may make the world go around, but it's laughter that keeps us from getting dizzy.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
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.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Ability is sexless.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Love works in miracles every day, such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak , making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools , favoring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Many hands make light work.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Do you like scary movies ?
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
The ready back gets all the loads.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
Believe in yourself.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Love that is true never grows old.
Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.