Yusuf Tara
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
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Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Our only security is in our ability to change.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or catholics.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
The best proof of love is trust.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Every dog has his day.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
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.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
There is no education like adversity.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
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.
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as clear as the nose on your face.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
He who hesitates is lost !
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
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.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
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.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Woody, I know what your problem is. You're just like me. Trash !
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
He who has hope has everything.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.