Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Count your blessings.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
The best things in life are not things.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
The sun will come up tomorrow
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
I ain't so tough.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
We belong dead.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
I think it pisses god off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Shut up and deal.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
Success is a journey not a destination.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Nothing succeeds like success.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
And that's how you play "Get the Guests".
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
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.
They're called boobs, Ed.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
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.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.