Yoda
Do or do not, there is no try.
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When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
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.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Title of newspaper article yesterday - Vandals made off with all toilet seats in the local precinct. Police have nothing to go on.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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.
I'm going to take a bath.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Go ahead, make my day.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Love is not selfish.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Ability is sexless.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
You must motivate yourself every day.
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
You've got to ask yourself one question : Do I feel lucky ? Well, do ya, punk ?
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.
But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart !
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Ideas without action are worthless.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Love is friendship set on fire.
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
God doesn't make junk.
It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Find the good -- and praise it.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Hi-Yo, Silver !
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
"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.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
Things do not change we change.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
No wire hangers, ever !
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
No one became poor by giving alms.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.