things quotes

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Focus on big things.

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It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.

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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

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The only way to be successful in life lies in the understanding of natural order of things.

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I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

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Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

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I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.

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When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

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It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

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The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

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There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.

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Whatever you are, be a good one.

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What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

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People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

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The first step toward greatness is to be honest.

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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

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Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

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Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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No great thing is created suddenly.

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

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From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.

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We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about.

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You don't have to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to be great.

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You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

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The price of greatness is responsibility.

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When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

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The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more things you'll have to express gratitude for.

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I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

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Things don't have to change the world to be important.

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More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

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There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.

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Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

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I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

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Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

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It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

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I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

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A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

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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.

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Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

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All the things that are worth doing, take time.

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

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Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

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There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

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The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

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I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

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Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

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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.

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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness

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It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

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When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

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Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.

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Greatness is a spiritual condition.

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

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Nothing can be done except little by little.

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.

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A small leak can sink a great ship

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Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.

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Good things happen when you meet strangers.

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Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

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You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

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