Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
The best vision is insight.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
You teach best what you most need to learn.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
We think too much and feel too little.
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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