William Lowe Bryan
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
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It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
I won't be ignored, Dan !
Love like you'll never be hurt.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Sanctuary !
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
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.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
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.
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.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Don't ever give up.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
All-righty then !
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.
Mac, you ever been in love ?
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
They're here !
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Love is a fruit in season at all times.
Let thy words be few.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Reach for the stars.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
We rob banks.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
What a dump.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Bring out the gimp.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.