Life must be lived as play.
We must reinforce argument with results.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you’re incapable of… If you think you’re incapable of running a company, make that your aim… Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.
Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
A bridge is born of necessity, but it must establish its own identity. It should harmonize with its surroundings, and the design must transcend the purely local and transform the setting.
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Nothing great 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.
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don’t want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
We must dare to think ‘unthinkable’ thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God’s loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader’s need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
