We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
In all our contacts, it is probably the sense
of being really needed and wanted
which gives us the greatest satisfaction
and creates the most lasting bond.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My Chosen Family
You are my family, but we don't share blood.
You are my family by choice.
The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
- Mother Teresa
America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
Look at this butterfly, so beautiful, so delicate.
I can enjoy this butterfly from a distance,
but if I touched her, she would die.
While not quite as delicate as butterflies,
people also need private space and private time
away from the demands of the world -
even away from the attentions of those
with whom they are most bonded.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil
is no freedom for the tree.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The roots of all goodness lie
in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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.
- Henry Ford
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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