Thing quotes
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
A witty saying proves nothing.
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Above all things, respect yourself.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Doughnuts. Is there anything they can't do?
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Friends are nothing but a known enemy
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
I am not sure exactly what Heaven will be like. But I do know that when we die and if comes the time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' Rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'
I am not young enough to know everything.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
I am the lizard king. I can do anything.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.
I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking, and I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
I have nothing but respect for you - and not much of that.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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.
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Ideas come from everything
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.
If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
In the end, everything is a gag.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire
Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
It’s a terrible thing to appear on television – because people think you actually know what you’re talking about!
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Nothing is black or white.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Nothing will work unless you do.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal
Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.
Only a woman can make you feel wrong for doing something right.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Peace is not something you wish for; it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Scientist believe in things, not in persons
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.
The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
The future is the shape of things to come.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
The knowledge of all things is possible
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes
The time is always right to do the right thing
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
The way to know life is to love many things.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Ultimately love is everything.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
We love the things we love for what they are.
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
Well, if she was dumb enough to marry you, she'll believe anything.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
When things go wrong don't go with them
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.
You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.