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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
All of our dreams can come true...
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep – a fundamental appreciation of mythology. Stories create the emotional context people need to locate themselves in a larger experience.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
Having children-the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings-is the biggest job anyone can embark on. You have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of people for their help and guidance.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Give with a truly glad heart, for the sole purpose of the good it will do, and whatever you give shall return to you, multiplied, as if on wings, covered in sparkles.
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
If you can't be kind, at least be vague.
Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.
To add value to others, one must first value others.
Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?
If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.
If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.
Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
A winner is someone who sets their goals, commits themselves to those goals and then pursues their goals with all the ability that is given to them. That requires someone who beleives in themselves, who will make self sacrifices, work hard, and maintain the determination to perform at the best of their ability.
Ingrid Kristiansen then has smashed the world record, running the 5000 metres in 14:58.89. Truly amazing. Incidentally, this is a personal best for Ingrid Kristiansen.
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great
When the promise is clear, the price gets easy
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
Belief creates the actual fact.
Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot.
We were very aggressive, and when we're aggressive, it's hard to stop us.
It doesn`t matter if you have a valentine or not - just love yourself and be your own.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.
Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.
Freedom is never given; it is won.
sometimes it's better to bunk a class & enjoy with friends, coz today when I look back, marks never make me laugh memories do.
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending upon her concept of God.
Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f*****g perch. And you can print that.
I'm no f****** talking to you. He's a f****** great player. Yous are f******* idiots.
I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
I find beauty in melancholy.
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.
The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.
Life is rough for everyone....Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others.
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
Memories mean more to me than dresses.
Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.
We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.