William Jennings Bryan
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
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A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Death is something not only mysterious but a great act of purgation. That which continues in a repetitive pattern is degeneration. The pattern may vary according to country, according to climate, according to circumstance, but it is a pattern. Moving in any pattern brings about a continuity and that continuity is part of the degenerating process of man. When there is an ending of continuity, something new can take place. One can understand it instantly if one has understood the whole movement of thought, of fear, hate, love - then one can grasp the significance, instantly, of what death is.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
The best way out is always through.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Forget about it.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
You complete me.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
We rob banks.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
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.
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.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
The world belongs to the energetic.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Love is a great beautifier.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
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
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Ideas... they have the power
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.