A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
Source Unknown
Before water generates steam, it must register 212 of heat; 200 will not do it. The water must boil to generate enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not run anything. Lukewarmness will not generate life's work.
A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any.
He who denies all, confesses all.
Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.
Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.
Nguyen Cao Ky
God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back.
When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
Jeff Goodell
The values of the Walt Disney company: The four C s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, Consistency, and the greatest of these is Confidence.
Football is a sad game.
George Best
True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.
Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator.
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
There are two enemies to every bill proposed in Congress, the fools who favor it and the lunatics who oppose it.
I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
Rachel Stevens
A bad conscience has a very good memory
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won t.
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.
Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
Donna Brazile
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25 foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed.
Some consultants are like the bottom half of a double boiler: They get all heated up but don't know what's cooking.
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
Camille Paglia
Everybody has a hot button. Who is pushing yours? While you probably cannot control that person, you CAN control the way you react to them.
It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft
Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.
I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.
Ezra Koenig
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
Tom Hanks
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
Sydney Schanberg
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