Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
Self-care is the non-negotiable. That’s the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
I think, a lot of times, people just want to be cool, and to be in love is not cool. But I think it’s the coolest. I think love is the coolest thing that there is.
It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‘Hey, I wrote a song.’
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.
The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don’t want to live in regret.
That’s the great thing about a tractor. You can’t really hear the phone ring.
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike… you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it’s true.
Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.
You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can’t just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn’t come off the way you thought it should come off.
Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality.
I’ve got nothing against plastic surgery at all. I know lots of people, young and old, who’ve had it. The point about good surgery is you can’t see it. The important thing is not to go crazy – and not to go to a bad surgeon.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
Democracy’s a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it’s no longer democracy, is it? It’s something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
Destiny is no 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.
The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.
Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life – we’re striving for this perfection, and it’s so unhealthy because there’s no such thing as perfection.
The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
There’s only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe – because I’ve done a little of this myself – pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.
The first thing I heard when I got in the business – not from my mentor – was, ‘Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.’ I’m here to tell you I was a pig. And I strongly believe the only way to make long-term returns in our business that are superior is by being a pig.
You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it’s the right thing to do out there.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.
Don’t ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it’s the only thing that ever has.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.
I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it’s very relaxed and chill. I’m just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
