Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
It’s our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won’t make your soul pretty.
Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.
I make sure that I spend quality time with my family.
All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs… we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.
Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She’s thicker.
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn’t come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, ‘I’m going to make it through all of this.’
Age and size are only numbers. It’s the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.
Germans make nice cars.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
The older I get, the more I’m conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn’t it?
I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world.
Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.
Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
When an underdog wins, they win for everybody, because somebody gotta come through that door and break it open and make it possible.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door – or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Don’t tell me what you believe in. I’ll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.
We must shift our thinking away from short-term gain toward long-term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
If it’s going to make you happy, go for it – life is short.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.
I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
You’ve got to make tough decisions, sometimes unpopular decisions… Whatever it is, if it’s the right move at the right time, you’ve got to be also willing to make mistakes.
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it’s so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are ‘others’ whom we can legitimately make war upon.
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
You must spend money to make money.
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Tough times not only make you stronger, but you grow from those experiences. The same is true with fighting. You have to lean into it.
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
