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Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.
A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.
You can't really control what people think. You can't really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.
In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.
Quite simply, our one hope for spiritual safety during these turbulent times is to turn our minds and our hearts to Jesus Christ.
The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster.
At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?
Anytime you have the opportunity to do any kind of story that is based on a true story, I think those are the most inspirational.
There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will be another story.
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.
Loyal customers, they don't just come back, they don't simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you.
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.
A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good, we must give of that which we have.
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
Your heart is not living intil it has experienced pain... the pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.
If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.
Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.