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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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
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.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
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When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Personally, veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Love is not selfish.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Fortune favors the brave.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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.
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.
Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go !
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
May you live all the days of your life.
Success is the child of audacity.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
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 ?'
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
That dirty, double-crossin' rat !
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
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.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me ?
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Forget about it.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.