Willie Mays
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
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Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Strike while the iron is hot.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
The loving are the daring.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
The best way out is always through.
Live with passion.
You talkin to me ?
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Cause Change & Lead. Accept Change & Survive. Resist Change & Die.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
I don't know nothin 'bout birthin' babies.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
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.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
I have a head for business and a bod for sin.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
You see, Francois, marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together. But with you, Francois, I think it would be a mistake.