Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Baden-Powell

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

Robert Baden-Powell

The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth. The warning that one would give, therefore, is that it is well not to fritter it away on things that don't count in the end; nor on the other hand is it good to take life too seriously as some seem to do. Make it a happy life while you have it. That is where success is possible to every man.

Robert Baden-Powell

I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life.

Robert Baden-Powell

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Robert Baden-Powell

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Richard Linklater

I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.

Reed Hastings

Don't be afraid to change the model.

Raymond Carver

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

Raymond Carver

My life is going to change. I feel it.

T. Harv Eker

Let's set the record straight. Money is important! To say that it's not as important as any other things in life is ludicrous. What's more important, your arm or your leg? Could it be that both are important?

T. Harv Eker

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!

T. Harv Eker

Whatever results you're getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world. If things aren't going well in your outer life, it's because things aren't going well in your inner life. It's that simple.

T. Harv Eker

Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding river. More often than not, you can only see to the next bend, and only when you reach that next turn can you see more.

T. S. Eliot

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

T. S. Eliot

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

T. S. Eliot

Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

T. S. Eliot

The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

T. S. Eliot

Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being.

T. S. Eliot

Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied End of the endless Journey to no end Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends.

T. S. Eliot

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

T. S. Eliot

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

T. S. Eliot

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

T. S. Eliot

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

T. S. Eliot

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

T. S. Eliot

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

T. S. Eliot

In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

T. S. Eliot

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.

T. S. Eliot

Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

T. S. Eliot

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone, and if one is alone Then lover and beloved are equally unreal And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.

Sydney J. Harris

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Sylvester Stallone

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.