“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.” – Bob Dylan
- “In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
– “To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”
– “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more”
– “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
“If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make the change.” – Michael Jackson
- “A goal properly set is halfway reached.”
- “A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.”
- “Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.”
- “Every choice you make has an end result.”
- “Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.”
- “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
- “Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”
- “I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”
- “If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.”
- “If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.”
- “If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”
- “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
- “If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.”
- “If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.”
- “If you want to reach a goal, you must “see the reaching” in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.”
- “It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”
- “It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference.”
- “Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.”
- “Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”
- “Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale.”
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” – Mark Twain
- “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
- “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
- “A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
- “All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”
- “Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.”
- “An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.”
- “Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.”
- “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
- “Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
- “Be the chief but never the lord.”
- “Because of a great love, one is courageous.”
- “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
- “By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.”
- “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
- “Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.”
- “From caring comes courage.”
- “From wonder into wonder existence opens.”
- “Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.”
- “Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.”
- “Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
- “All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
- “An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.”
- “Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”
- “He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.”
- “How do you know you’re going to do something, untill you do it?”
- “How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.”
- “I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
- “I don’t even like old cars. I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.”
- “I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
- “I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”
- “I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”
- “I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
- “I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
- “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.”
- “If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.”
- “It was a very stupid thing to do, I’ll admit, but I hardly didn’t even know I was doing it.”
- “It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.”
- “Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.”
- “Mothers are all slightly insane.”
- “People never believe you.”
- “A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.”
- “A hard man is good to find.”
- “A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.”
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
- “A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction.”
- “A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
- “A man’s kiss is his signature.”
- “A woman in love can’t be reasonable – or she probably wouldn’t be in love.”
- “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
- “An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.”
- “Any time you got nothing to do – and lots of time to do it – come on up.”
- “Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
- “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
- “Cultivate your curves – they may be dangerous but they won’t be avoided.”
- “Don’t keep a man guessing too long – he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else.”
- “Don’t marry a man to reform him – that’s what reform schools are for.”
- “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.”
- “Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.”
- “He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
- “He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.”
- “A closed mouth catches no flies.”
- “A person dishonored is worst than dead.”
- “There is a time for some things and a time for all things; a time for great things and a time for small things.”
- “A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”
- “A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”
- “Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune.”
- “Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.”
- “Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
- “Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”
- “Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”
- “Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”
- “Every man is the son of his own works.”
- “Fair and softly goes far.”
- “Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”
- “For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.”
- “Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”
- “From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.”
- “God bears with the wicked, but not forever.”
- “Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.”
- “He had a face like a blessing.”
- “He preaches well that lives well.”