Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Coral reefs represent some of the world’s most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea’s most exquisite species will not survive.
Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.
Spaghetti… I can’t eat spaghetti, there’s too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I’ll have 1,000 pieces of noodles.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
Men are what their mothers made them.
I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.
That’s the thing about awards – it’s for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
We think, each of us, that we’re much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it’s the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we’ve already made the decision.
Nostalgia is one thing. It’s great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.
I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.
Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you’re going to do with your life. I tell kids that it’s a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it’s up to them to decide which way to bend.
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
I think I’ve shown the world I’m a fierce competitor, yes. But I’ve also shown them that I’m a fierce human being.
True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don’t have a Facebook page. I don’t use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don’t use them.
There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn’t be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.
Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won’t come in.
My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.
‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it’s the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it’s just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.
The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin’ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
I don’t think that one moment in people’s life should define them. Within reason: I emphasise that.
I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer – it’s really strong. We’re deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I’m very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.
I’ve been blessed to have a lot of mentors in my life that just have been good people and hard workers. Jae Crowder is one of them; Jimmy Butler is one of them.
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else get clearer by the day.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
