William Curry
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
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Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
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.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
I am the captain of my soul.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
The time is always right to do what is right.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
There's no crying in baseball !
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
May the Force be with you.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
If you build it, he will come.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Funny like I'm a clown ? I amuse you ?
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.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Find the good -- and praise it.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.