Zen Proverb
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death !
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
I like to watch.
We belong dead.
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.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above, without it, life is a wasted time. Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Sanctuary !
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Ability is sexless.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Love is friendship set to music
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.
True love can not be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
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.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
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.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Love, two minds without a single thought.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.