Yoda
Do or do not, there is no try.
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Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Think and grow rich.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
Somebody stop me !
Life is change ; growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard. Now, what's all this crud about no movie tonight ?
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
I think we deserve a break.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I light my candle from their torches.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
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.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Sometimes you gotta say, What the fuck.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are made.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
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.
Without love our life is a, ship without a rudder, like a body without a soul.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
We didn't land on plymouth rock. Plymouth rock landed on us !
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Many hands make light work.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Success is a journey not a destination.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Laughter is the best medicine.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.