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Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.
There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness
Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.
Your life will have chapters, complete with crazy characters, villains and a plot you can't even imagine as you sit here today. It's a lot like a Scooby Doo episode.
Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.
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.
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.
You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.
Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Life is relationships; the rest is just details.
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really run operations. I've never had the endurance to run sales. The whole idea of selling to the customer just isn't my personality. I'm an engineer, tell me why something isn't working or is and I am curious.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
Why be a man when you can be a success?
Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
I'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.
I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.
I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense.
A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football
Every death is like the burning of a library.
Sometimes when almost everything is wrong, one thing is so right you would do it all again.
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.
Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.
You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
