If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
My heart is ever at your service.
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Begin with the end in mind.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
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.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Success is a journey not a destination.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Can you dig it ?
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
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.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
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.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
Love is letting go of fear.
When I first met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
Man's love is of man's life a part, it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up ! You're right on track.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.