William Feather
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Do it now !
Talkers are no good doers.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
They're here !
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
He who has hope has everything.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
God doesn't make junk.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
You only get out what you put in.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
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.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Snakes ! Why did it have to be snakes ?
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Live with passion !
Hey, Bud, lets party !
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
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.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
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.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against ?
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Let thy words be few.
The time is always right to do what is right.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
I have loved to the point of madness, that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.