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It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
When we are not sure, we are alive.
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.
I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.
I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.
The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.
We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.
It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal.
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
I think that happiness is a very strange thing. And we really feel that we have a right to this happiness. But I feel like it's constantly fluctuating, and that you can make yourself happy. I think it's an outlook. Having a positive attitude probably sounds like a corny thing to say, but a positive attitude really helps, and respecting your job really helps, and having the support of your family and friends really helps.
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
Your reaction to a situation determines whether it will be positive or negative. If you're determined to label a situation positive, no matter how it appears, the result MUST be positive. If you label something negative, that MUST be your experience. It's never too late to change a situation because you have an unlimited supply of positive sticky labels! Your life is always your call!
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.
There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.
Love turns man into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self, his true beauty, and the glory of his human existence.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
If you take the approach that “good” is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life is there for a reason - you’ll begin to see every event (no matter how difficult or challenging) as a chance for enrichment and advancement in your life.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go.
He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.
I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.
We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
You cannot look at that which you do not want and not join and perpetuate that vibration. Take your attention from that which is not in harmony with who you are, and your "now vibration" will adjust to who you really are - and then you can uplift others.
The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become
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.
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
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.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.
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.
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.
