Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Seize the day.
Never spend your money before you have it.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Whatever you are be a good one.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
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 listener does not hear. quotes
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Honesty is the best image.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
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.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Let's roll.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.