William Lowe Bryan
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
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Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
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.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
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.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Ever has it been that love knows not it's own depth until the hour of separation.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
What is life without the radiance of love.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
All you need is love.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Changes in life are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Can you dig it ?
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
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.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom !
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 ?
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Bumper Sticker - Join the Army. See the world, travel to far away places, meet exotic people and kill them.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
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.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Shane ! Shane ! Come back !
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
You talkin to me ?
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
They're here !
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Actions speak louder than words.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?