Things Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins, Helen Keller, Samuel Johnson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Rollins, Henry Miller and many others.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
You can’t know what you don’t know. You can’t know about things you have yet to discover.
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
I’m an imperfect person. I’ve let anger, jealousy, all the emotions, get the best of me. If I go into books, word by word, little by little, they help re-center and re-ground me and put me on the right path. Life is a journey. I’m very focused on the things I do and have learned not to be pressured.
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Things don’t always go your way in football: there are always good and bad times. At the end of the day, you have to have a positive attitude and a strong mentality and not let any setbacks get you down. And that’s what I’ve done – I’ve tried to keep my composure, even when things aren’t going the way I’d like.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
I feel as though, if you’re able to control your dreams, you have more power and control over your mind, like you could reach more areas of your mind. Therefore, I feel like it creates the ability for you to achieve more things in reality.
One of the things I was taught in law school is that I’d never be able to think the same again – that being a lawyer is something that’s part of who I am as an individual now.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
At some stage in most people’s lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.
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.
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
Sometimes things don’t go your way, but you get up and keep going.
Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it’s bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.
As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.
Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Do all things with love.
Caring – about people, about things, about life – is an act of maturity.
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I’m like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we’re walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
The most important things in life aren’t things.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.
Small things amuse small minds.
I’m proud of my hard work. Working hard won’t always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I’ve wanted that I haven’t always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
Small things sometimes mean a whole lot!
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
There are two things that won’t last long in this world, and that’s dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.
Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
I like being the underdog so they don’t expect what’s going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I’m not doing better.
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Smart people focus on the right things.
I think it’s difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
I started ‘Outer Banks,’ because there’s so much hype around it. I saw one episode and I didn’t really continue, but I got to keep going at it. Two of the actors on there were also in ‘Stranger Things,’ and all my friends always ask, ‘Oh my God, you know Madelyn Cline. She was in ‘Stranger Things’ too.’
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies – all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.
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.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Trust the young people; trust this generation‘s innovation. They’re making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come.
I never said most of the things I said.
Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.
Many big and small things happen in our lives, almost on daily basis, and I hope that everyone would not lose the trust that they have in themselves, and never lose positive attitude.
Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.
When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Don’t give up, no matter how hard it is. Things are going to be tough down the road, but the more work you put in, the more achievement you’re going to get out of it.
Small things make me smile.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
The good and bad things are what form us as people… change makes us grow.
With all of the bad things that are happening in the world right now, I think we need a message of togetherness and true unity. I believe that starts with personal reflection and then we can find kindness toward each other.
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Whatever you put around yourself, you will be the mirror of it. Surround yourself with things you love.
I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.
If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there’s nowhere to move on to.
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
I don’t know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.
Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you’re not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
Life is short, so go for things you enjoy.
Time, the devourer of all things.
When you meet with someone and you try to assess whether they’re telling you the truth or not, there’s several things you can do. You judge demeanor and credibility. You look at corroboration.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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.
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.
Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
At the end of the day, I’m fighting for the things I said I’d fight for.
I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Be thankful for what you have. Appreciate the small and simple things.
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Dragon fruit is very subtle, very delicate. So you want to be careful not to kill it with things that have very strong flavor.
Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming.
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
I don’t get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there’s no sense in getting upset. And I don’t get upset over things I can’t control, because if I can’t control them there’s no sense in getting upset.
Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in – democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It’s not about any of those things now. It’s about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn’t pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it’s not fair. Bad things happen to good people.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It’s all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.
It’s the small things that will make you successful.
Sometimes it’s important to get out of that comfort zone and, I think, try new things, and sometimes you can express yourself better.
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan… believe… act!
The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
Things are never so bad they can’t be made worse.
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
The moon is the accomplice of all things related to the heart.
There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
I can’t imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
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.
Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one’s power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Little things can make such a big difference during recording.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication‘ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
I collect memories. I look for opportunities to try new things, go to new places, and meet new people all the time.
A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.
There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
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?
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.
But time growing old teaches all things.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
I don’t react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don’t care about anything. It’s just too hard for me to get emotional. I can’t cry no more.
I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
I do not regret the things I’ve done, but those I did not do.
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.
Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word ‘blue’ in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.
I’m always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.
The more things change, the more they are the same.
I know I haven’t always done things the right way. I’m just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.
I just got an ear for the kind of things I like.
The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don’t tell me jokes – I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: ‘Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.’ ‘I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.’
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture – our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.
It’s about learning how to slow down… I think this Covid environment that we’re in there’s a lot of sadness and a lot of pressure going on in terms of the uncertainty, but what it is teaching us or forcing us to do is appreciate the small things: be grateful for a slower pace of life.
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don’t have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they’re going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
It’s not ‘can’; it’s ‘will.’ You have to will things into fruition.
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.
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that’s how you create things that are totally new.
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
One things guys have to remember is consistency… You can’t make up for three years of eating poorly in just one workout.
I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.
You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.
I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.
The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don’t enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It’s not the law-abiding citizens, it’s not the person who uses it as a hobby.
I’ve trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.
It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I’m not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person – love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.
Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.
I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen.
It’s crazy how fast time flies and how things progress.
I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.
Memories are the best things in life, I think.
Everyone has a different life story. Things happen rapidly for someone, and things move slowly for others.
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
When you’re true to who you are, amazing things happen.
I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it’s all easy.
There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
I have no plan. I will leave it to the good things and good times to find me.
Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.
If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
I’m not psycho… I just like psychotic things.
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
My mother had a saying: ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.’
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
I’d much rather hang out in a cafe. That’s where things are really happening.
History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.
There’s so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we’re going to get through it. Just be strong.
Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.
Grace is what matters in anything – especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That’s a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can’t do by yourself.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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!
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face.
Cinema is not only about making people dream. It’s about changing things and making people think.
Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
A healthy friendship is one where you share your true feelings without fearing the end of the relationship. It’s also one where you sometimes have to let things that bug you slide. The tough moments will make you wiser about yourself and each other. They will also make you stronger and closer as friends.
Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
There’s beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that’s harder than others.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‘good,’ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
Flowers are happy things.
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
Life is tough, and things don’t always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.
Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that’s left is The Extraordinary.
A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you’re not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you’re hooked.
Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it’s just who you are. You’re embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don’t get to see that.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
If you do things to the limit, and don’t purposely go over that limit, then I think it’s fine to do whatever you want. So long as you enjoy it. That’s what’s important.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Even nice things don’t make you happy when you’re tired.
A leader’s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
I think electricity will create a new world. I feel like the world will change a lot with electricity, and I wonder how it will change, it’s scary, and it’s going to be fun. I think there are so many things to think about when it comes to electric cars.
Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
I don’t believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you’re spending your time doing something worthwhile.
See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.
We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Look! Don’t be deceived by appearances – men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
You can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
You only get one shot in your life, and you might as well push yourself and try things.
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
We don’t need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables – the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers – to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.
I know I may have done some bad things, but I’m not a bad person.
I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
It hasn’t always been easy. There’s a lot of hard moments. Sometimes you learn from the end of the bench. Sometimes you learn from injuries. Sometimes you learn the most through the hard things. If you can keep a good attitude and keep on working, eventually situations change, and you can put those things to use.
Life is too short and too sweet to complain about the silly things.
It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Just knowing you don’t have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn – and those are all good things.
A lot of things are going to happen that you can’t necessarily control all the time, but you can control what you do after it happens. So that’s what I try to do, keep my head up, keep moving forward, stay positive and just work hard.
Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
I never said half the things I said.
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
When you’re working with good people it brings good things out in you.
You can’t be all things to all people.
I’m changing every day as far as this rap thing. I’m learning new things. I’m getting bigger by the day.
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
The best way to know God is to love many things.
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
We’re put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.
Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
I want to be able to look back and say, ‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’ I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I’d like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.
Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most.
The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don’t celebrate those, they can pass you by.
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
Good order is the foundation of all things.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people’s ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That’s the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
I think it’s really important to design things with a kind of personality.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
