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So many books, so little time.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Don't walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don't walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...'
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
Leap, and the net will appear.
I can, therefore I am.
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
I was motivated to be different in part, because I was different.
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
It's always too early to quit.
Know or listen to those who know.
Only the educated are free.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
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 encumbered with your old nonsense.
The only way around is through.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
We will either find a way, or make one.
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation.
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.
All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.
Nothing is as difficulty as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential, these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
Never mistake activity for achievement.
Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free - but it can't go anywhere.
I love America . We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling.
The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.
God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die!
If you don't climb the mountain, you can't view the plain.
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep.
To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself. . . . It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Hell, there are no rules here , we're trying to accomplish something.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America , I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.
If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon, deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.
You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.
Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait. . . . Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement.
Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration . . and expectation.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.
There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.
comic strips were fantastic and considered outside the realm of man's attainment. They were considered figments of man's imagination, but now many of these miraculous, imaginative things have become realities and man is pushing onward toward new and higher goals of achievement. We are now mentally prepared for every new invention and advancement in technology and the sciences, but, nevertheless, stand amazed at man's powers to create and achieve. These outstanding accomplishments, which approach the miraculous, to me are unquestioned evidence of man's divine nature. Man has sent up satellites which circle the globe. He has taken the breathtaking, miraculous ride about the earth. He expects to circle the moon and even land man on the outer planets; also he considers feasible floating platforms in outer space as intermediate stations for interplanetary travel.
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
It's not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that's important.
No bed is big enough to hold three.
To understand your parents, love you must raise children yourself.
Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Love of country is like love of woman, he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
I could never love where I could not respect.
Love is a great beautifier.
What is lovely never dies , But passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
I was nauseous and tingly all over. . . . I was either in love or I had smallpox.
I used to think that being nice to people and feeling nice was loving people. Now I know it isn't. Love is the most immense unselfishness and it is so big I've never touched it.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
What force is more potent than love.
Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
Food offered without affection is like food offered to the dead.
How does one measure time? No, not in day, months, or years. It is measured by the most precious of all things: Love. Without which all beings and things whether brave and/or beautiful would perish.
It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.
Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.
Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves.
A love that defies all logic is sometimes the most logical thing in the world.
A part of you has grown in me, together forever we shall be, never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart.
Sure, I know that the Bible says to love our neighbors as ourselves. But frankly, I don't believe that my neighbors can stand all that affection.
A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like a child who sings at night when he is afraid.
But isn't hate just scorned love?
Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her.
I did not hear the words you said, instead I heard the love.
I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
If music be the food of love, then play on.
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
If you deny childhood, you deny life. They can't speak up for themselves so we must. It's like, how do we define love, It's a very, very deep feeling, but It's I think the most important force of life.
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.
If you love someone, you must be strong enough to allow them to be.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
It is better to have loved and lost, than to have hated and won.
It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love.
It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship.
Lonely is a man without love.
Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.
Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give which is everything.
Love is eternal as long as it lasts.
Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
Love is what dreams are made of.
Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.
Love your friend with his faults.
Make love, not war; get married and do both!
Make your life an act of love.
My need is not to be on the outside glaring in; its to be in the center with you. To be loved is nice, but not essential. To love someone, that's what makes life worth living.
No one in love is free, or wants to be.
Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love until he's owned a dog. He can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.
Sometimes a new love comes between old friends. Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.
The heart that loves is always young.
The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.
' Tis better to have loved and lost, then paid for it and not liked it.
To be loved is to live forever in someone's heart.
To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; To teach and never be weary is love.
To love something is to give it room enough to grow.
True love is the outward demonstration of inward conviction.
We can do no great thing, only small things, with great love.
We learn to love that to which we give our time.
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
What is Love? It's silence when your words would hurt, It's patience when your neighbor's curt, It's defense when the scandal flows, It's thoughtfulness for another's woes, It's promptness when stern duty calls, It's courage when misfortune falls.
What seems to grow fairer to me as life goes by is the love and the grace and tenderness of it; not its wit and cleverness and grandeur of knowledge, grand as knowledge is, but just the laughter of children, and the friendship of friends, and the cozy talk by the fire, and sight of flowers, and the sound of music.
When you find a job you love, you'll never have to work a day in your life.
When you love somebody, you should follow your heart. Sometimes when you are with the person you love the most, you feel confused. You don't know who you are or what you want but that is totally understandable. It is natural to let go of a part of yourself to be with that person but the important part is that you don't lose your own identity in the process!
Where we love is truly home; home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Without love intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence love is not enough.
Without loving acts, loving words are meaningless.
Work is love made visible.
You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
You've got to dance like no one's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose is the next best thing.
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Love should be a vehicle allowed to travel without limitations.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost . .
Respect for sovereignty, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.
A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
It is impossible to love and be wise.
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them.
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
The secret of art is love.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Our first and last love is self-love.
When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy.
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
After observing the loved and the unloved, we found the loved ones rarely tried to manipulate others.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
The best proof of love is trust.
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
The ability to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
To love is to transform; to be a poet.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule.
Had we never loved sae kindly , Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted!
To see her is to love her , And love but her forever; For Nature made her what she is, And never made anither !
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
No happiness is like unto it, no love so great as that of man and wife, no such comfort as a sweet wife.
Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.
I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?
Love still needs expression between those who share it.
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time . . . It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
L'amour vient de l'aveuglement , l'amitie de la connaissance . (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have lost at all.
All love at first, like generous wine , Ferments and frets until tis fine; But when tis settled on the lee, And from the impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder.
To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Respect is love in plain clothes.
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence.
Love is so much better when you are not married.
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
Love not what you are, but what you may become.
Love, such as in society, is only the exchange of two fantasies, and the contact of two bodies.
To love is to approach each other center to center.
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable .
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
For two people to please one another they must be very nearly alike, so that they may understand each other, and slightly different, so that they may have something to understand in each other.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
We are all born for love. . . . It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
But love's a malady without a cure.
Pains of love be sweeter far, than all other pleasures are.
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
If you have respect and consideration for one another, you'll make it.
No, this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
All mankind love a lover.
Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
No man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife's hatred, they are borne each of them apart.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.
Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eye.
If people are allowed to love life, then they should also be allowed to hate it.
Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
A man is already halfway in love with a woman who listens to him.
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.
Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults.
Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
I need you because I love you.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Love at the lips was touch, As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
We love the things we love for what they are.
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
It's an extra dividend when you like the girl you're in love with.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another: and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind.
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.
We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day and hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.
And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of seasons.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth.
. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
Romance is about the little things.
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Love is something eternal, the aspects may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it is a good lamp, but now it is shedding light, too, and that is its real function.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.
But love is many things, none of them logical.
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Love you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you.
It requires doing not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
The story of a love is not important what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity, love. And the story of a love is not important, what is important is that one is capable of love.
Love is a hole in the heart.
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people.
If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get . . . Only with what you are expected to give. . . . Which is everything.
You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.
I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.
Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. He can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
Learn to love good books. There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.
The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or ever touched, they must be felt with the heart. We should do everything within reason to save a good relationship. But if we are constantly trying to save it, it's probably not a good relationship.
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something.
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life.
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.
There shall be no love lost.
Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never . . . never forget it.
Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.
When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world no matter how imperfect becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.
If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers . We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as wind blows out candles and fans fire.
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.
The value of compassion cannot be overemphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.
Don't wait until you're a man to be great. Be a great boy.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
Greatness after all, ion spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.
Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
Every great man is unique.
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood. Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men. The people who can catch hold of men's minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history. . . . those who stir feelings and imagination and make men struggle toward perfection.
Creativity means believing you have greatness.
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.
True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.
A great man will not trample upon a worm, nor sneak to an emperor.
Recipe for greatness? To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate and to love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great.
There would be no great ones if there were no little ones.
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.
Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.
So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.
Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe. He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.
A desire for bigness has hurt many folks. Putting oneself in the limelight at the expense of others is a wrong idea of greatness. The secret of greatness rather than bigness is to acclimate oneself to one's place of service and be true to one's own convictions. A life of this kind of service will forever remain the measure of one's true greatness.
Some things have not changed since the dawn of history, and bid fair to last out time itself. One of these things is the capacity for greatness in man his capacity for being often the master of the event and sometimes even more the changer of the course of history itself. This capacity for greatness is a very precious gift, and we are under a danger in our day of stifling it.
To achieve great things we must live as if we were never going to die.
Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.
Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.
He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success.
It is truly said: It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
Strength is a matter of a made up mind.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within.
You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.
When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache.
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can't. Yet, in your belief you'll find the strength, you'll find the ability, to do it anyway.
If there were no other virtues in fasting but gaining strength of character, that alone would be sufficient justification for its universal acceptance.
There is nothing so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as strength.
I do not attach much importance to America 's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
In Mr. Nixon's book, God is indeed on the side of the big battalions.
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.
. . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
This is the law of the Yukon , that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.
There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
Above all challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.
Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.
My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
There is a comfort in the strength of love: Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
It is not because things are different that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.
Victory is a political fiction.
If you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat.
There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory.
The victory of endurance born.
The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.
Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.
. . . You ask, What is our policy? I will say; It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
The courses of the Victory were absorbed into the main, then her topsails went, and then her top- gallants. She was now no more than a dead fly's wing on a sheet of spider's web; and even this fragment diminished. Anne could hardly bear to see the end, and yet she resolved not to flinch. The admiral's flag sank behind the watery line, and in a minute the very trunk of the last main-mast stole away. The Victory was gone.
. . . He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.
Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends, those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now? Now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail. If we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered 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 nor defeat.
There is only one success - to spend your life in your own way.
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.
m so optimistic I'd go after Moby Dick in a row boat and take the tartar sauce with me.
In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple, yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.
Happiness lies in our own backyard, but It's probably well hidden by crabgrass.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it was not the small pieces of paper that were unhappy.
to be blessed , happy, healthy and prosperous.
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.
Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy.
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves.
All I ask for is an opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness.
All the happiness you ever find lies in you.
An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness.
For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want the most for what you want now.
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
Happiness is acceptance.
Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things , It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.
Happiness is made to be shared.
Happiness is not always measured in smiles.
Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him yours.
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.
He alone is the happy man who has learned to extract happiness not from ideal conditions but from actual ones about him.
He who has not learned to share his blessings with others has not found the true path to enduring happiness. HAPPINESS comes from sharing one's self and one's blessings. All riches are multiplied by the simple process of sharing them where they may serve others.
Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.
Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.
No one can secure happiness without earning it.
Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.
Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
Sometimes we miss happiness by looking too far for things nearby.
Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you.
The supreme happiness to life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves.
When people yearn with all their hearts For just one treasure far away ; They close their eyes to countless joys That crowd around them every day.
You have to find happiness in yourself before you can find it with someone.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Happiness depends upon ourselves .
Happiness is a state of activity.
. . . happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it. . . .
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it , it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
I remember hearing in a talk that the more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.
The lives and happiness of our children, as far ahead as the mind can reach, depend on us today. If we succeed, posterity looking back will record that this was indeed man's finest hour.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
You can make yourself happy or miserable, it's the same amount of effort.
Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around it .
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
What is the best thing for a stream? It is to keep moving. If it stops, it stagnates. So the best thing for a man is that which keeps the currents going - the physical, the moral, and the intellectual currents. Hence the secret of happiness is something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all men, and what a wretched world it would be! Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are kept busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it. How important is health to happiness, yet the best promoter of health is something to do. Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
What is the worth of anything , But for the happiness 'twill bring?
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.
He who sings frightens away his ills.
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ...
Anybody who is happy all the time needs a psychiatrist.
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful , But the gratefulness that makes us happy.
Happiness is a stock that doubles in a year.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
If solid happiness we prize , Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow ; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.
Happiness depends, as Nature shows , Less on exterior things than most suppose.
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
Happiness is not given but exchanged.
The envious are not happy unless they are making other people envious.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it.
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Account no man happy till he dies.
Ten Spiritual Tonics 1. Stop worrying. Worry kills life. 2. Begin each day with a prayer. It will arm your soul. 3. Control appetite. Over-indulgence clogs body and mind. 4. Accept your limitations . . . 5. Don't envy. It wastes time and energy. 6. Have faith in people. Cynicism sours the disposition. 7. Find a hobby. It will relax your nerves. 8. Read a book a week to stimulate imagination and broaden your views. 9. Spend some time alone for the peace of solitude and silence. 10. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want.
It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.
Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.
Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
Happiness is a myth we seek , If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks . For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights ; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.
If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.
Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
Nine keys to contentment Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbors. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
The highest happiness of man . . . is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead.
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.
Happiness, in this world, if it comes at all, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and it is never attained.
Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, my alight upon you.
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel towards what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment, it is a result.
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends But in the worth and choice.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.
True happiness must have the tinge of sorrow outlived, the sense of pain softened by the mellowing years, the chastening of loss that in the wondrous mystery of time transmutes our suffering into love and sympathy with others.
Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give. . . . If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is.
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honorably.
How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self- gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which as been opened for us.
Definition of happiness: The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
Do it this very moment! Don't put it off, don't wait! There's no use in doing a kindness If you do it a day too late.
Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune.
One is never so happy or so unhappy as one thinks.
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.
Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all: Into each life some rain must fall; Some days must be dark and dreary.
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
Experience praises the most happy is the one who made the most people happy.
Friends, books, cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here.
The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise , but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
If you find some happiness inside yourself, you'll start findin ' it in lot of other places too.
Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.
Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction. We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside, this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described. At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball , And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
If this world afford true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts....take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further then a great idea that inspires no one.
It's the independent American spirit that built this country - hard-working entrepreneurs who believe in the reality of their dreams.
We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.
We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.
I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.
A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.
Follow your heart and your dreams will come true.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.
No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work.
No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.
The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.
The world is full of Kings and Queens , who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.
Yesterday is but a vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a dream of hope.
You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals.
Your dreams come true when you act to turn them into realities.
Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood and will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble and logical plan never dies, but long after we are gone will be a living thing.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Dreaming men are haunted men.
Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers are lonely.
Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.
When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme.
Dreaming permits each of and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Cherish your visions and you dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts scepters in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
It may be that those who do most, dream most.
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their grey visions they obtain glimpses of eternity.
You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs! Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things! Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine: The past, the present, and the future time. Thy reminiscences transport the soul To memory's Paradise , its future goal.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet, Tread softly because you tread on n dreams.
However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies, especially in this hemisphere. None of the wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow and be led.
Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.
One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
You manage things; you lead people.
If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.
It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character, it forces you to make decisions based upon your beliefs and not what other people think. In life, and in business, you have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. But, what makes you a leader is having the courage of your convictions.
Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America .
Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time.
My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
The marksman hitteth the target partly by pulling, partly by letting go. The boatsman reached the landing partly by pulling, partly by letting go.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
Grow antennae, not horns.
A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead.
Success for leadership is . . . knowing the great art of directing others without their noticing it.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
. . . power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess - fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men he cannot handle them. Neither can he influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others.
There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.
-- that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head, that's assault, not leadership.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
The human mind is as driven to understand as the body is driven to survive.
A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Respect a man, he will do the more.
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
No two men can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
Lift, Lead and Love.
We did it ourselves.
Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish, don't overdo it.
There are no dumb questions, only dumb answers.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Leadership is influence.
Leadership is an action, not a position.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run ever faster if encouraged.
One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
The same ambition can destroy or save, And makes a patriot as it makes a knave.
Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
To lead in the 21st century-to take soldiers, sailors, and airmen into battle, you will be required to have both character and competence.
He who reads is never alone.
Learn to obey before you command.
Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.
Consensus is the negation of leadership.
It is much safer to obey, than to govern.
A President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a single moment.
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Education is the mother of leadership.
Every man who takes office . . . either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them every day begin the task anew.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Winning is everything, to win is all there is. Only those poor souls buried beneath the battlefield understand this.
All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means - you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.
Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Never let defeat have the last word.
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.
The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee.
Nobody remembers who came in second.
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
If winning isn't important, why do we spend all that money on scoreboards?
Everybody is born with an equal chance to become just as unequal as he or she possibly can.
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or to evil.
There are only two places in this league: first place and no place.
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time.
If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up.
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result.
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're No. 1. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, the temporary failures.
Success demands singleness of purpose.
Winners dwell on and hold the self-image of that person they would most like to become. They get a vivid, clear, emotional, sensory picture of themselves as if they had already achieved their new role in life.
when they're winning?
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.
There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.
There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
The art of winning in business is in working hard, not taking things too seriously.
I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.
And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.
Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.
Winners are naturally bullish.
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
When you win, nothing hurts.
My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final.
There are 100 men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
A man's fortune has its form given to it by his habits.
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
1. Be Proactive. 2. Begin with the end in mind. 3. Put first things first. 4. Think win win. 5. Seek first to understand . . . then to be understood. 6. Synergize. 7. Sharpen the saw.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
All habits gather by unseen degrees , As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it, how much you are willing to work and plan and cooperate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong!
Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn.
Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.
We're worn into grooves by Time by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness achievement.
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
Habits change into character.
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character.
The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school itself, but to the pressure of his father's will; when that stimulus is absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as necessary to resolve it.
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!
Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.
It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
I realized that far beyond the possibilities of bodily thought there were in myself forces, powers and knowledge far transcending all that the body can ever perceive or imagine in its loftiest flights.
Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge.
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
You can out distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.
It isn't what you know that counts, It's what you think of in time.
I am what I am and I have the need to be.
If you want to be somebody, somebody really special, be yourself.
Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge.
Knowledge become power only when we put it into use.
Knowledge is boundless but the capacity of one man is limited.
Knowledge is not what you can remember, but what you cannot forget.
Learning is like rowing upstream. Advance or lose all.
Men have a tendency to believe what they least understand.
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.
Teachers open the door, but you enter by yourself.
The more you know, the less you need to show.
The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge.
There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.
We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, is like one who ploughs a field but does not sow it.
If . . . happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.
All men by nature desire to know.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he - Who finds himself loses his misery.
The conqueror and king in each of us is the . . . Knower of truth. . . . Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
For knowledge, too, is itself power.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books. . . . They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.
Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.
Can anything be beyond the knowledge of a man like you?
First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.
Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth? He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this, that he knew nothing yet.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
One of the most common reasons so few people are consistently able to achieve meaningful results is that they are unwilling to experience the discomfort associated with relentlessly pursuing a correct perception of reality.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life.
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it, this is a hard lesson.
In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
You already know enough to go to hell.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it this is knowledge.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.
Best efforts will not substitute for knowledge.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Timidity is mistrust of self, and proceeds not from modesty but from conceit. A man is timid because he is afraid of not appearing to his best advantage.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? - Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Knowledge is an antidote to fear.
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Know what you want. . . . Become your real self.
You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
Thoroughly to know oneself, is above all art, for it is the highest art.
And what is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Knowledge begets knowledge. The more I see, the more impressed I am not with what we know but with how tremendous the areas are as yet unexplored.
Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge, it is the end.
It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.
No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
What is not fully understood is not possessed.
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
Head knowledge is good, but heart knowledge is indispensable. The training of the hands and feet must be added to make a rounded education. We must all learn these days to become spiritual pioneers if we would save the world from chaos.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
This statement is not accurate. Self is created, not found.
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins.
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness that darkness flung me Is worthless as ignorance : nothing comes from nothing The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge, broad deep knowledge, is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
Be that self which one truly is.
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.
He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.
We work so consistently to disguise ourselves to others that we end by being disguised to ourselves.
What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being more so by those who do not know so much of us.
He is strong who conquers others ; He who conquers himself is mighty.
He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world, introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerable, that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people that you know about yourself.
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
An erudite fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
I have had more trouble with myself than with any man I have ever met!
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
Packed in my skin from head to toe Is one I know and do not know.
Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.
He who reveals to me what is in me and helps me to externalize it in fuller terms of self-trust, is my real helper, for he assists me in the birth of those things which he knows are in me and in all men.
As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.
No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of earth to the things of heaven.
True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise : so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
Learn what you are and be such.
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it.
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
Our lives teach us who we are.
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and most delicate ways, improve yourself.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Nature has given to us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge.
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control , These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
You never know yourself till you know more than your body.
Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.
Happy the man who knows the causes of things.
Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.
The young man requires wisdom as well as knowledge.
I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow.
There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.
By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.
No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step in knowledge.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves self- discipline with all of them came first.
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside.
He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not do.
The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.
Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees or the stars; you have a right to be here.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.
It's not the work that's hard, it's the discipline.
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.
Discipline is remembering what you want.
Hands untrained in the use of tools destroy what they want to build. It takes skill to use tools to achieve the result desired, whether it's tearing down an old house or building a new one. Skepticism is a tool serving both purposes. But it must be used by a trained mind, a mind capable of disciplined thinking.
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.
No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked. . . . It is a precept I have followed scrupulously: for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another.
One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day.
The time is always right to do what is right.
I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion.
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Here comes number seventy-one!
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
The horizon is out there somewhere, and you just keep chasing it, looking for it, and working for it.
With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin. With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.
He who does not tire, tires adversity.
In order to get from what was to what will be, you must go through what is.
Patience and perseverance surmount every difficulty.
The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.
There is no point at which having arrived we can remain.
It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.
With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.
Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.
Never give up. Never, never give up! We shall go on to the end.
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France , we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. . . . And if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empires beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the fight, until in God's own time the new world in its power and might steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the old.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
Before success comes in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.
No man is ever whipped, until he quits -- in his own mind.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, my left is wavering. The situation is excellent. I shall attack!
Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete. When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.
Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
It is not enough to begin; continuance is necessary. Mere enrollment will not make one a scholar; the pupil must continue in the school through the long course, until he masters every branch. Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.
If you are truly flexible and go until . . . there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
At first we hope too much, later on, not enough.
Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, - and of obstinacy in a bad one.
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.
Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying. We must never give up, regardless of temptations, frustrations, disappointments, or discouragements.
You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.
Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
Ill-health of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
To get rich never your risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, disease seeks men.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
The superior doctor prevents sickness ; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness.
A healthy family is sacred territory.
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
If you like the post office, you are going to LOVE national health care.
We squander health In search of wealth; We scheme and toil, and save, Then squander wealth In search of health; And all we get's the grave; We live and boast of what we own; We die . . . and only get a stone.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.
Prevention is better than cure.
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest , but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
Barn-yard medicine has not given us any vaccination procedure that really protects against illness, but many that endanger the body, that even bring death.
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself , may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene, nine-tenths of it!?
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Happiness? That's nothing more than good health and a poor memory.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd druther not.
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.
People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.
One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstances.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.
If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended.
Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
What you do off the job is determining factor In how far you will go on the job.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free.
Don't accept that others know you better than yourself? Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment is your choice made. Thus you learn to take the path to the right. Thus you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.
A person shows what he is by what he does with what he has.
Keep your thinking right And your business will be right.
At a distance from home a man is judged by what he means.
Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.
Character is a victory, not a gift.
Character, like a kettle, once mended, always requires repairs.
I am building a character that shall never know completion. May I, as the days come and go, ever draw nearer to God through service to His children.
Am I shaping my deeds to a well made plan? Patiently doing the things I can? Or, am I a wrecker, who walks the town Content with the labor of tearing down?
Reputation is the shell a man discards when he leaves life for immortality. His character he takes with him.
Reputation is what the world thinks a man is; character is what he really is.
Though a man without money is poor, a man with nothing but money is still poorer. Worldly gifts cannot bear up the spirits from fainting and sinking when trials and troubles come, any more than headache can be cured by a golden crown or toothache by a chain of pearls.
When I do right, no one remembers. When I do wrong, no one ever forgets.
When small men begin to cast long shadows, it is a sure sign that the sun is setting.
You can tell what a man is by what he does when he hasn't anything to do.
You can't measure the heart of a champion.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his or her commitment to excellence, regardless of his or chosen field of endeavor.
You don't have to tell how you live each day, You don't have to say if you work or you play, Attired, true barometer serves in the place, However you life, it will show in your face. The false, the deceit that you bear in your heart Will not stay inside where it first got a start; For sinew and blood are a thin veil of lace, What you wear in your heart, you wear in your face. If your life is unselfish, if for others you live, For not what you get, but how much you can give; If you live close to God in his infinite grace, You don't have to tell it, it shows in your face.
If you are not leaning, no one will let you down.
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy soul for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these that where a man can live, there if he will, he can also live well.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won.
A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smoothes a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character, too.
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Thought creates character.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
Sad is the day for any man when he becomes absolutely satisfied with the life he is living, the thoughts that he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing; when there ceases to be forever beating at the doors of his soul a desire to do something larger which he seeks and knows he was meant and intended to do.
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
You build a successful carreer, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.
Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
It is an old saying, and one of fearful and fathomless import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Forming characters - Whose? Our own or others? Both and in that momentous act lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
A man's got to know his limitations.
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
The higher up you go, the more gentle you have to reach down to help other people succeed.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do.
Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.
The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and receivers, rescuing all that is finest down deep inside of them, and bringing to flower and fruitage the latent richness of the Spirit, which, after all, is the mission and purpose and reason for being of this Church.
A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.
There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall b e rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.
We do not need more national development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us man hood or womanhood fiber.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.
The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can't hear what you're saying.
No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace. While it stands, the latest generations of the grateful children of America will make this pilgrimage to it as to a shrine; and when it shall fall, if fall it must, the memory and the name of Washington shall shed an eternal glory on the spot.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; the power to do what seems to him to be right, without considering what others may say or think.
uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Genius develops in quiet places , Character out in the full current of human life.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
We have all been inoculated with Christianity, and are never likely to take it seriously now! You put some of the virus of some dreadful illness into a man's arm, and there is a little itchiness, some scratchiness, a slight discomfort, disagreeable, no doubt, but not the fever of the real disease, the turning and the tossing, and the ebbing strength. And we have all been inoculated with Christianity, more or less. We are on Christ's side, we wish him well, we hope that He will win, and we are even prepared to do something for Him, provided, of course, that He is reasonable, and does not make too much of an upset among our cozy comforts and our customary ways. But there is not the passion of zeal, and the burning enthusiasm, and the eagerness of self-sacrifice, of the real faith that changes character and wins the world.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors, the fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action.
A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
A man's character is his fate.
Character is destiny.
When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
One man with courage makes a majority.
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
In matters of style swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfill. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union , we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.
Every man has three characters: That which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Courage is doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is; the tree is the real thing.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
A man without character is like a ship without a rudder.
New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington wink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St. Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities.
. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely, they will make or break you.
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.
If you create a character, you create a destiny.
A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.
A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.
The most vital test of a man's character is not how he behaves after success, but how he sustains defeat.
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Character is what you are in the dark.
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
Character is a subtle thing. Its sources are obscure, its roots delicate and invisible. We know it when we see it and it always commands our admiration, and the absence of it our pity; but it is largely a matter of will.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.
Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Most women have no characters at all.
Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them.
Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy- happiness ,joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.
Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act; Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit; Sow a Habit, and you reap a Character; Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny.
Calamity is the test of integrity.
A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's.
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.
Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence .
The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
The recent action of an eastern state's education department in eliminating from its curriculum all courses dealing in any way with moral ethics, on the pretext of complying with the Constitutional provision for the separation of church and state, is most disturbing. This is a repudiation of all responsibility for the building of character the true purpose of education.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
In thy face I see The map of honor, truth, and loyalty.
Men should be what they seem.
A persons character is but half formed until after wedlock.
A certain bygone philosophy - which certainly must have quite forgotten all about the real child - used to speak of the child's nature as a tabula rasa, or 'blank page,' upon which experience and training might write what they pleased. As a matter of fact, the child's nature at birth, like that of a calf or a chick, is pretty well scribbled over by the experience of its ancestors. It is far from being blank, for as soon as the little organism comes into the world, it begins to do certain things and do them with much zeal and determination, as every one knows who knows real children.
The great enemies of intellectual life are superstition, gullibility, and fallacious reasoning. A mere knowledge of facts, important as that is, is no safeguard against these. A conscious desire and resolve to think clearly is the true remedy. Our national success will depend largely upon the development of a generation of men and women who have formed a love and habit of clear thinking and who can do their part in solving the problems that confront civilized man today.
Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race.
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders...Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand.
If it ever came to a choice between compromising my moral principles and the performance of my duties, I know I'd go with my moral principles.
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
I kept six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.
What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.
No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh--at yourself.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Opportunity , often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Opportunities - They are all around us there is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
A man who misses his opportunity, and monkey who misses his branch, cannot be saved.
Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity.
If God shuts one door, He opens another.
Teachers open the doors, but you must enter by yourself.
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
For every problem there is an opportunity.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
It's the man who waits for his ship to come in who's always missing the boat.
Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Once an opportunity has passed, it cannot be caught.
Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is.
The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it.
Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Where one door shuts another opens.
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.
In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.
of practical men. The opportunity to strive for them is the currency that has enriched America through the centuries.
With increased opportunity comes increased stress. The stress comes from multiple conflicting demands and very little in the way of role models.
Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.
To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
There will always be a Frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions, it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide security and growth and progress with no risk . . . even within the church. As freedom for unrestricted development is enhanced, the possibilities for failure are also increased. The risk factor is great.
Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, ' Opportunity '.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
The Chinese write the word crisis with two characters, on of which means danger and the other opportunity.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
How often the sight of means to do ill deeds, makes deeds ill done.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
We have a problem for those who advocate competitive equality of opportunity: the prizes won in the competitions of the first generation will tend to defeat the requirements of equality of opportunity for the next.
It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
If we do not take advantage of our opportunities, it is our own fault.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.
You and I can never do a kindness too soon, for we never know how soon it will be too late.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.
Will is character in action.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson is life who does not every day surmount a fear.
'Tis better to be alone than in bad company.'
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great mean, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
We will either find a way, or make one!
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a great deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, if you really want to win, there's no easy path to glory. There is no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But its prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition that will not quit.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control.
has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with, a man is what he makes himself.
Double, no, triple our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that is not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain - if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
Learning is not compulsory. . . neither is survival.
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
The things we accept as normal and enjoy today were considered impossible twenty-five years ago and beyond the power of man to achieve. The early
You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
The uses of power cannot be divorced from the purposes of power.
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.
It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
If winning isn't important, why keep score?
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself - I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.
T. S. Elliot
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Karl G. Maeser
Edward O. Sisson
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity.
Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.
A MUST HAVE for all who are looking for the motivation to improve the quality of their lives
Am I now ready to make some changes.
Nothing is impossible!!!
My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Page 241 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success W ff W Plan to succeed or a planned to fa Dreams come true i who work while dream..=.==I, There are those who see an opportunity, and those who SEIZE an opportunity. Great Quotes from Great Minds Pa2e 242rou have il. for those theyI.. ... '-_... There are risks and costs to a plan of action, but they are far less than the long-term risks and costs of comfortable inactions. cs 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great MindsThe future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.When facing a difficult task, act as if you cannot fail. Great people are created by great mistakes that are learned from, not from great successes that are gloated upon. -Elmer ClarkMotivation is what gets you started; habit is what keeps you going. -Jim Ryun/4 Page 243-b,1% 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Those who want to succeed will find a way; those who don't will find an excuse. -Leo Aguila ...-- ..... ----- - Great Quotes from Great Mindso. It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out with preconceived notions. -Charles F. Kettering OfF No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement. -Greg Henry QuinnIf you mess up and learn nothing, it's a mistake. If you mess up and learn something, it's an experience. -Mark McFadden- - A -,-ff %- Page 244 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great MindsPeople who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.04, Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction. -Matthew Burton NI Except and expect positive things, and that is what you will receive. -Lori Hard -NThoughts are like a flame: small thoughts produce small heat, and big thoughts make an inferno. -Jim Lu .-N =.= Page 245 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great MindsSuccess is not all about money. It's about having the resources and the ability to live the life that you have personally dreamed of. -Pete ZafraJq If you don't think everyday is a great day, try going without one. -Jim Evans The body achieves what the mind believes.To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try. -Thomas Jefferson I?J =====%, Page 246 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Even if something has just a one percent chance of success, success boils down to how fast you exhaust your ninety-nine failures. The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. -Anthony Robbins em Great Minds Page 247One of the most important princi- ples of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. -Napoleon Hill A=F The philosophy of the rich versus the poor is this: The rich invest their money and spends what is left; the poor spends their money and invest what is left. -Jim Rohn.ff %, Great Quotes froa 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great MindsPerfection is our goal; excellence will be tolerated.Vision plus desire equals reality. If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. -Brian TracyWe must have courage to bet on our ideas, take the calculated risk, and take action! -Martin Brown.. ............ --.... ... .- Page 248 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great MindsImpossibility is an opinion, not a fact.A winner never stops trying. -Tom Landry Life is a state of mind; imagine the one that you want, and then create it.The secret to success is to do common things uncommonly well. -John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Page 249 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great MindsThe surest way not to fail is to be determined to succeed. I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.OF Winners must have two things: definite goals, and a burning desire to achieve them. -Brad Burden The three P's of success: Passion, Persistence, and Patience. -Doug Bronson Page 250 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Oe X Better is not something you wish, it is something you become. -Jim Rohn Of True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. -Paul Sweeney N ~0rIf you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. -Mother Theresa Great Quotes from Great Mindsff %, MMMMISMEMHe has achieved success if he has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. -Bessie Stanley 11 mmmmvOf True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. -Paul Sweeney 44' 01 1% AF Page 251 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you must have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. -Margaret Thatcher ;bs Great Quotes from Great MindsJ What is success? I think it is M No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. -Brian Tracy'% Of J-1 Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. -Dr. Dale Turner ------ ---- -- ' Page 252 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great MindsIf you can't find the key to success, pick the lock. Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.Yesterday's failures are today's seeds that must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest tomorrow's success. Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a tempo- rary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. -Denis Waitley I ====11rPage 253 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success 01 You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success. -Zig Ziglar You gotta have a dream! If you don't have a dream how are you gonna make a dream come true? -Oscar Hammerstein, II =1/It takes a person who is wide-awake to make his dream come true. -Roger Ward Babson What distinguishes us from one another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about. -Joseph Epstein Great Quotes from Great Minds Page 254 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there. -Bo Jackson IL \ ~ .--.... - Great Quotes from Great MindsWithin our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. I,You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. -Les Brown Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching. -Mark Twaink R, Page 255 Author Biography Thomas J. Vilord is a licensed Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley in the Cherry Hill, New Jersey office. 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has performed miracles. -George P. Burnham The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas, into enthusiasm, into actions. -Thomas J. WatsonThroughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. -Ayn Rand 'I10 V Page 201 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -Francis of Assisi Great Quotes from Great MindsDon't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve! -Mary Kay Ash -m F The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you can alter the difficulties, or you can alter yourself to meet the difficulties. -Phyllis Bottoms Page 202 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Far better is it to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to make rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat. -Theodore RooseveltBelieve in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble, but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. -Norman Vincent Peale ifRemove failure as an option. -Joan Lunden N Great Quotes from Great Minds Page 203 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Never stand begging for something that you have the power to earn. -Miguel de Cervantes \ AtThere isn't a person anywhere that isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can. -Henry Ford '1 1 Great Quotes from Great MindsTo succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it. -Michael Korda Page 204 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great Minds-Thomas J. Vilord Page 205The individual activity of one man with a backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wish bone. -William Boetcke L~--FPr Failure is just an opportunity to begin again.. .this time more wisely. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -Anthony RobbinsIf you are not going to think big, don't bother thinking at all. 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. Great Quotes from Great MindsIn the end, the size of a man's accomplishments can best be measured by the size of their heart. -f Em~ A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one. -Mary Kay Ashe 'I ifA man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. -Charles Schwab Ii Page 206 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great Minds-F. Scott Fitzgerald Page 207A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. -Zadok RabinowitzNothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. -Madeline L'Engle _j When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe on one of two things: there will be earth upon which to stand, or you will be given wings to fly.What we must decide is how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.-IF= M-- 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success If I You can often measure a man by the size of his dreams. -Robert H. Schuller The poorest man in the world is not a man without a cent to his name, but it's the man who does not have a dream.The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas. -Melvin Powers I ...r-If===% The recipe of success is to study while others are sleeping, work while others are loafing, prepare while others are playing, and dream while others are wishing. -William A. Ward A ... Great Quotes from Great Minds Page 208 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success -I still say that I am a little sI different because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house. Success is just being happy. -Herschel WalkerTo have more than you've got, become more than you are. -Jim Rohn F The future is purchased by what you do in the present. Great Quotes from Great MindsSuccess consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. -Oliver Goldsmith v-F 0= .-- - '% Ar Page 209 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, with whomever you want, as much as you want. -Anthony Robbins Enthusiasm is the vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. -Conrad Hilton \.-FThe only way to excellence is to consistently improve yourself every single day. -Thomas J. Vilord A' I want to seize fate by the throat. -Ludwig van Beethoven Great Quotes from Great Minds Page 210 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success The very essence of leadership is having vision. -Father Theodore Hesburg Success comes to those who make it happen, not those who let it happen.I4 ff Some of mv fondest memoriesI% Great Quotes from Great MindsThe successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. -Dale Carnegie Prt - -.- ---. ..- ..... in sports were a result of failure, injuries, setbacks, and mistakes. I learned far more about myself and gained more character in those difficult times than I ever did when success came early. 11 ID#- APot ]- lrAr I -I Page 211 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Great Quotes from Great MindsIn the marathon of life, success calls for dedication to the goal, perseverance, compassion for my fellow man, and faith in God. -John A. Kelley.r Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made courageous decision. -Peter Drucker E-F Courage is daring to take the first step, or a different path. It is the decision to place your dreams above your fears.The currents that determine our dreams and shape our lives, flow from the attitudes that we nurture everyday. I,1% AT- Page 212 1001 Motivational Quotes For Success Happiness, wealth, and success are the byproducts of goal setting; they cannot be the goals themselves. -Denis Waitley This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it, or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. ... Great Quotes from Great Mindsftmm
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What will I be doing in twenty years 'time ? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.
The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.
The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.
In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.
the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary scene--the fall of monarchies, the upheaval of the social order, indeed, all the turbulence of the 20th century.
the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.
The soul migrates from body to body. Weapons cannot cleave it, nor fire consume it, nor water drench it, nor wind dry it. This is the soul and this is what is meant by the existence of the soul.
the bunker.
your private life is public, that's what happens. Over the years, I've got used to that. Sometimes they write wonderful things, sometimes they write what a fool you are. That's part of what it is to be in the public eye.
Their relationship changes from good friends to Master and disciple. It is Sri Krishna's revelations that give the Gita its Divine power. Sanjaya the scribe of the Gita remembered the words of Sri Krishna and this is why the Gita is usually looked upon as śruti, or revealed knowledge. Even though technically the Gita is Smrti because it was later remembered and written down by Sanjaya. When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous. - Albert Einstein Abhi SharmaPage 21 Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your sufferings. It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return. No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come. I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds. As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve His purpose. Balance of mind is called Yoga. It is true that the mind is restless and difficult to control. But it can be conquered, through regular practice and detachment. Those who lack self-control will find it difficult to progress in meditation; but those who are self-controlled, striving earnestly through the right means, will attain the goal. Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors, which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. For certain is death for the born... And certain is birth for the dead... Therefore, over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve. Abhi SharmaPage 22 Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts. The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice. There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes. Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. Be free from fear. Be fearless and have faith in the divine. Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection. As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within. Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives. No work stains a man who is pure, who is in harmony, who is master of his life, whose soul is one with the soul of all. Abhi SharmaPage 23 Yatra yogesvarah krsno yatra partho dhanur-dharah tatra srir vijayo bhutirdhruva nitir matir mama || 18-78 ||The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar - this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one's own mind. The last verse of Bhagavad-Gita, which is known as 'One Verse Gita' This last verse of Bhagavad-Gita from Chapter 18 (Conclusion--The Perfection of Renunciation) explains: Wherever there is Krishna, the master of all mystics (Yoga and wisdom), and wherever there is Arjuna (True Devotee), the supreme archer (performer of his/her duties), there will always certainly be opulence, victory, extraordinary power, and morality (policy).The knowledge sacrifice is superior to any material sacrifice. No one is even equal to You in the three worlds how can there be one greater than You O Being of Incomparable Glory. But, you are not able to see Me with your physical eye therefore, I give you the divine eye to see My majestic power and glory. (Ek Sloki Gita) Abhi SharmaPage 24 Quotes on Bhagwad Gita
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Put yourself in your customer's place. ― Orison Swett Marden Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. ― Richard Branson A man should never neglect his family for business. ― Walt Disney The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. ― Henry Ford A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. ― Richard Branson To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ― Thomas Watson, Sr. If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. ― Ray Kroc Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. ― Gary Hamel I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ― Senator Everett Dirksen Confidence is contagious; so is lack of confidence. ― Vince Lombardi Abhi SharmaPage 42 wC Confucius Chanakya Charles Darwin Charles Dickens Charlie Chaplin Back to Content List Abhi SharmaPage 43 Confucius Silence is a true friend who never betrays. Confucius (born Kong Qiu, styled Zhong Ni) was born in the village of Zou in the country of Lu in 551 B.C., a poor descendant of a deposed noble family. As a child, he held make-believe temple rituals; as a young adult, he quickly earned a reputation for fairness, politeness and love of learning, and he was reputed to be quite tall. He traveled extensively and studied at the imperial capital, Zhou, where he is said to have met and spoke with Lao Zi, the founder of Daoism.Upon his return to Lu, he gained renown as a teacher, but when he was 35, Duke Zhao of Lu led his country to war, was routed and fled to the neighboring country of Qi; in the disorder following the battle, Confucius followed. Duke Zhao frequently came to him for advice, but upon counsel of one of his ministers, he decided against granting land to Confucius and gradually stopped seeking his counsel. When other nobles began plotting against Confucius' position, Duke Zhao refused to intervene, and Confucius returned to Lu. But conditions there were no better than before, and Confucius retired from public life to concentrate on teaching and studying. At age 50, he was approached by the Baron of Qi to help defend against a rebellion, but he declined. He was later made a city magistrate by the new Duke of Lu, and under his administration the city flourished; he was promoted several times, eventually becoming Grand Secretary of Justice and, at age 56, Chief Minister of Lu. Neighboring countries began to worry that Lu would become too powerful, and they sent messengers with gifts and dancers to distract the duke during a sacrifice holiday. When the duke abandoned his duties to receive the messengers, Confucius resigned and left the country. Confucius spent the next five years wandering China with his disciples, finding that his presence at royal courts was rarely tolerated for long before nobles would begin plotting to drive him out or have him killed. He was arrested once and jailed for five days, and at 62 he was pursued, along with his disciples, into the countryside by a band of soldiers sent by jealous nobles, until he was able to send a messenger to the sympathetic king of a nearby country, who sent his own soldiers to rescue them. Once again, Confucius was to be given land but was denied it upon counsel of another high minister. After further wanderings, he eventually returned to Lu at age 67. Although he was welcomed there and chose to remain, he was not offered public office again, nor did he seek it. Instead he spent the rest of his years teaching and, finally, writing. He died at 72. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Abhi SharmaPage 44 By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. The funniest people are the saddest once. What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points. The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean. The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. Abhi SharmaPage 45 If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. Shall I teach you what knowledge? When you know a thing, say that you know it; when you do not know a thing, admit that you do not know it. That is knowledge. Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. When anger rises, think of the consequences. He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. He who keeps danger in mind will rest safely in his seat. It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. You cannot open a book without learning something. Abhi SharmaPage 46 Chanakya There is no disease so destructive as lust. Chanakya (c. 370-283 BCE) was an Indian teacher, philosopher and royal advisor. Originally a professor of economics and political science at the ancient Takshashila University, Chanakya managed the first Maurya emperor Chandragupta's rise to power at a young age. He is widely credited for having played an important role in the establishment of the Maurya Empire, which was the first empire in archaeologically recorded history to rule most of the Indian subcontinent. Chanakya served as the chief advisor to both Chandragupta and his son Bindusara. Chanakya is traditionally identified as Kautilya or Vishnu Gupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise called Arthaśāstra. As such, he is considered as the pioneer of the field of economics and political science in India, and his work is thought of as an important precursor to Classical Economics. Chanakya is often called the
Every Orgenization rests upon a mountain of secrets. Abhi SharmaPage 103 Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims. Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore: they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves. True information does good. The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.facebook is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist. The goal is justice, the method is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method. Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism. I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India - a nation I love. We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up. These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. Abhi SharmaPage 104 KBack to Content List Karl Marx Abhi SharmaPage 105 Karl Marx Question everything. A hugely influential revolutionary thinker and philosopher, Marx did not live to see his ideas carried out in his own lifetime, but his writings formed the theoretical base for modern international communism. Karl Heinrich Marx was born on 5 May 1818 in Trier in western German, the son of a successful Jewish lawyer. Marx studied law in Bonn and Berlin, but was also introduced to the ideas of Hegel and Feuerbach. In 1841, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena. In 1843, after a short spell as editor of a liberal newspaper in Cologne, Marx and his wife Jenny moved to Paris, a hotbed of radical thought. There he became a revolutionary communist and befriended his life long collaborator, Friedrich Engels. Expelled from France, Marx spent two years in Brussels, where his partnership with Engels intensified. They co-authored the pamphlet 'The Communist Manifesto' which was published in 1848 and asserted that all human history had been based on class struggles, but that these would ultimately disappear with the victory of the proletariat. In 1849, Marx moved to London, where he was to spend the remainder of his life. For a number of years, his family lived in poverty but the wealthier Engels was able to support them to an increasing extent. Gradually, Marx emerged from his political and spiritual isolation and produced his most important body of work, 'Das Kapital'. The first volume of this 'bible of the working class' was published in his lifetime, while the remaining volumes were edited by Engels after his friend's death. In his final years, Karl Marx was in creative and physical decline. He spent time at health spas and was deeply distressed by the death of his wife, in 1881, and one of his daughters. He died on 14 March 1883 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery in London. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Abhi SharmaPage 106 The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. Religion is the opiate of the masses. Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. Democracy is the road to socialism. All I know is that I am not a Marxist. Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through. My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism. The task is not just to understand the world but to change it. The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. Abhi SharmaPage 107 LBack to Content List Leo Tolstoy Abhi SharmaPage 108 Leo Tolstoy When joy disappears, look for your mistake.Lev Nikolaevich (Leo) Tolstoy (1828-1910). A Russian novelist, reformer, and moral thinker. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, the Tolstoy family estate a hundred miles south of Moscow, on August 28. He died on November 20 at a nearby railroad station, having fled in the night from an increasingly contentious marriage and a set of familial relationships that had been hardened in large part by Tolstoy's attempts to apply his radical moral beliefs to his own life. In the intervening eighty-two years Tolstoy became perhaps the most prominent novelist in an age and place of great authors as well as a vociferous critic of science and modernization. Tolstoy's international fame rests primarily on two novels, War and Peace (1865-1869) and Anna Karenina (1875-1877). His fictional works also include short masterpieces such as
(1908), all of which address a confluence of moral and intellectual errors he perceived in modern life and thought at the turn of the twentieth century. Like his contemporary Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), whom he never met, Tolstoy was broadly concerned with the spiritual future of the human race. He attempted to confront the gradual movement away from traditional values with an almost Aristotelian emphasis on the permanent relationships of things, promoting the universality of natural and religious values of love and labor to which he believed the human heart responds. Although the West now knows him as the writer of large and perhaps infrequently read novels, his influence on writers and political dissidents such as Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) and Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918) has been enormous, and his thought provides resources for ethical assessments of science and technology that have not yet been explored fully. The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience. Abhi SharmaPage 109 I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. Kings are the slaves of history. A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. What a joy it is to do a good deed! And this joy is strongest if no one knows that you have done it. Mysterious language is not a sign of wisdom. The wiser a person is, the simpler the language he uses to express his thoughts. Until they throw the money changers out of the temple of art, it will never be a real temple. Religion and law try to escape from criticism, religion by saying that it is divine and law by showing that it is powerful. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. Abhi SharmaPage 110 M Mohandas Gandhi Mother Teresa Mark TwainBack to Content List Abhi SharmaPage 111 Marilyn Monroe Movies Music Back to Content List Abhi SharmaPage 112 Mohandas Gandhi Known as 'Mahatma' (great soul), Gandhi was the leader of the Indian nationalist movement against British rule, and is widely considered the father of his country. His doctrine of non-violent protest to achieve political and social progress has been hugely influential. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar in Gujarat. After university, he went to London to train as a barrister. He returned to India in 1891 and in 1893 accepted a job at an Indian law firm in Durban, South Africa. Gandhi was appalled by the treatment of Indian immigrants there, and joined the struggle to obtain basic rights for them. During his 20 years in South Africa he was sent to prison many times. Influenced primarily by Hinduism, but also by elements of Jainism and Christianity as well as writers including Tolstoy and Thoreau, Gandhi developed the satyagraha ('devotion to truth'), a new non-violent way to redress wrongs. In 1922, Gandhi himself was sentenced to six years' imprisonment. He was released after two years and withdrew from politics, devoting himself to trying to improve Hindu-Muslim relations, which had worsened. In 1930, Gandhi proclaimed a new campaign of civil disobedience in protest at a tax on salt, leading thousands on a 'March to the Sea' to symbolically make their own salt from seawater. In 1931, Gandhi attended the Round Table Conference in London, as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress, but resigned from the party in 1934 in protest at its use of non-violence as a political expedient. He was replaced as leader by Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1945, the British government began negotiations which culminated in the Mountbatten Plan of June 1947, and the formation of the two new independent states of India and Pakistan, divided along religious lines. Massive inter-communal violence marred the months before and after independence. Gandhi was opposed to partition, and now fasted in an attempt to bring calm in Calcutta and Delhi. On 30 January 1948, he was assassinated in Delhi by a Hindu fanatic. We May Ignore Gandhi At Our Own Risk. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.My life is my message. Abhi SharmaPage 113 I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. Nobody can hurt me without my permission. Abhi SharmaPage 114 You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present, God has given me no control over the moment following. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Hate the sin and love the sinner. Abhi SharmaPage 115 Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What is faith worth if it is not translated into action? The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. In a gentle way, you can shake the world. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. Abhi SharmaPage 116 What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. Democracy and violence can ill go together. Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side. It may be long before the law of love will be recognized in international affairs. The machinery's of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Abhi SharmaPage 117 Mother Teresa Work without love is slavery. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work. On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order,
means that is safe to navigate. Because the river trade was brought to a stand still by the Civil War in 1861, Clemens began working as a newspaper reporter for several newspapers all over the United States. In 1870, Clemens married Olivia Langdon, and they had four children. Twain began to gain fame when his story,
appeared in the New York Saturday Press on November 18, 1865. Twain's first book,
was published in 1869,
There is no noise, only sound.
is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one. Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality. Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. You are the traveler and you are the destination. In experiencing the ecstasy of your own being, you have achieved the final goal. Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incompara ble. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. Each is unique and incomparable. You are just yourself: nobody has ever been like you, and nobody will ever be like you. And you need not be like anybody else, either. God creates only originals; he does not believe in carbon copies. Life is a pilgrimage to nowhere, from nowhere to nowhere. And between these two nowheres is the Now-Here. To be alone is the only real revolution. To accept that you are alone is the greatest transformation that can happen to you. Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness. Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss. Abhi SharmaPage 139 Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving. Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love. Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality. Life is a balance between rest and movement. Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself. Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second. Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You can not be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. Life begins where fear ends. My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently. The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it. If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown, give him support.They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want! In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light. Abhi SharmaPage 140 wR Rabindranath Tagore Robert FrostBack to Content List Abhi SharmaPage 141 Rabindranath Tagore Men are cruel, but Man is kind. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Mahatma Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India. Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. For the world he became the voice of India's spiritual heritage; and for India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution. Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and Balaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes]. The English renderings of his poetry, which include The Gardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916), and The Fugitive (1921), do not generally correspond to particular volumes in the original Bengali; and in spite of its title, Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), the most acclaimed of them, contains poems from other works besides its namesake. Tagore's major plays are Raja (1910) [The King of the Dark Chamber], Dakghar (1912) [The Post Office], Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable], Muktadhara (1922) [The Waterfall], and Raktakaravi (1926) [Red Oleanders]. He is the author of several volumes of short stories and a number of novels, among them Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [The Home and the World], and Yogayog (1929) [Crosscurrents]. Besides these, he wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in 1941. Tagore also left numerous drawings and paintings, and songs for which he wrote the music himself. Rabindranath Tagore died on August 7, 1941. You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Abhi SharmaPage 142 If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower. We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. Music fills the infinite between two souls. Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition. The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you. In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. Abhi SharmaPage 143 These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom. Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening. Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. Abhi SharmaPage 144 Robert Frost Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. He moved to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard, though he never earned a formal degree. Frost drifted through a string of occupations after leaving school, working as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel. His first professional poem,
He became a national celebrity, our nearly official Poet Laureate, and a great performer in the tradition of that earlier master of the literary vernacular, Mark Twain.
He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding.
. Berkshire's annual reports and letters to shareholders, prepared by Buffett, frequently receive coverage by the financial media. Buffett's writings are known for containing quotations from sources as ranging between the Bible and Mae West, as well as advice in a Midwestern folk style, and numerous jokes. What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. Abhi SharmaPage 188 Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. Never invest in a business you can't understand.I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful. The only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. Without passion, you don't have energy. Without energy, you have nothing. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently. You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out. Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people. It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. Abhi SharmaPage 189 Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls Royce to take advice from people who ride the subway. Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing. The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable.The sequence is not predictable. When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact. I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will. If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. Abhi SharmaPage 190 Will Rogers Never miss a good chance to shut up. Will Rogers was first an Indian, a cowboy and a national figure. Born in 1879 on a large ranch in the Cherokee Nation near what later would become Oologah, Oklahoma, Will Rogers was taught by a freed slave how to use a lasso as a tool to work Texas Longhorn cattle on the family ranch. As he grew older, Will Rogers' roping skills developed so special that he was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for throwing three lassos at once: One rope caught the running horse's neck, the other would hoop around the rider and the third swooped up under the horse to loop all four legs. Will Rogers' unsurpassed lariat feats were recorded in the classic movie,
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
All warfare is based on deception.
Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril.
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.
Move swift as the Wind, Camouflaged as the Forest, Attack Fire as the Mountain, Unmovable as the Mountain.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
The man who has more confidence in his product than the customer does will win every time.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
You have to risk everything. If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting and embark on a journey into the unknown.
The boy's name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
We picture love as a momentary madness, but it is not. It is a long growing process.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
We are all, in private life, decent people; and we are all, in public life, savage people.
The natural loves are not all selfless. Even the best of them is partly self-regarding.
We do not want merely to see beauty, though that is bad enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words: to be united with the beauty we see.