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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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
The world belongs to the energetic.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
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.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Hey, lady !
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
Actions speak louder than words.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
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 ?'
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
The only reason I would take up jogging would be to hear heavy breathing again.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
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.
Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.
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 ?
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
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.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
I am not a toy. I am a spork !
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.