120 result(s) for Gilbert Parker Quotes.
"There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink."
"Danger which is real makes one brave, danger which is fancied makes one a coward."
"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish."
"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."
"The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing."
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"The best part of happiness is the pines."
"Hate is an added burden but revenge sweetens the load."
"Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it."
"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it."
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him."
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
"It is too late to grieve when the chance is past."
"To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another."
"Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be."
"Courage is awkward; perhaps it is too finely spun to be blunt."
"Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect."
"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."
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"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."
"Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying."
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"Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone, it is the whole process."
"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."
"Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time."
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
"Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure."
"In the race for life, our greatest need is to be gentle with ourselves."
"The thought breeds the word, the word breeds the deed, the deed breeds the habit, and the habit breeds the character."
"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem."
"There is a glory in your past, a sunshine in your soul, and a beauty in your days to come."
"A good laugh is sunshine in the house."
"The first duty of love is to listen."
"Happiness is a way station between too little and too much."
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."
"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
"Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still."
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take."
"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."
"The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first."
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to'."
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."
"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."
"Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now."
"Peace begins with a smile."
"Love knows no distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars."
"When love makes a little fence, there is no man or woman so wise but knows that it is there and smiles."
"Love is more than word can speak. Beyond the phrase, infinite reaches and sweeps."
"For it is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another."
"Trust thy love, if love is thine; Know no other, keep it fine."
"A friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
"A good thought is blessed only when it is carried into stone at the right minute."
"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance."
"The saddest thing in the world is to love someone who used to love you."
"Place your stake slowly, joy is a plant that must be watered often if it is to survive."
"There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away."
"The heart is the real fountain of youth; as long as it continues to beat, you can't help growing older."
"Old love is different. In our old love, we are still blessed. Blessed, too, is the love that carries beyond the grave."
"To live dangerously is to risk hanging on for tomorrow."
"There is grace in loving when that love is returned, or even when it is rejected."
"A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses."
"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."
"There may be many flowers in a man's life, but there is only one rose."
"Sometimes love is not what we want to have, but it is what we need to do."
"The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end."
"The world is run by second-rate men."
"Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the fancy, and as many ideas to the understanding."
"In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it."
"The real difference between freedom and slavery, consists in this: that the one travels with the cotton-plant wherever it goes, and is to be bought and sold like an ox, while the other can quit the country and system which have ceased to be endurable."
"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
"A truth once uttered can never return."
"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom."
"He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust."
"The facts always speak for themselves."
"It is a great thing in a nation to have things to heave out, small grievances to find fault with, little abuses to redress."
"There's more danger in long centuries of peace than years of storm and upheaval. It's smaller things that kill a nation, like worms in the garden."
"It is only the few wise that know in spite of faith and hope the big reality of things."
"It is true no economy can go on growing unless it is continually adapting itself to new circumstances."
"Out of the serfdom of suffering, whether it was the serfdom of the body, the mind, or the senses, comes the freedom of God."
"The conscience of a people is their power."
"There is no wisdom like frankness."
"The feat of accomplishment is a better show than the feat of power."
"Unanimity is worse than tyranny. In the tyranny of a ruler, united by fear, there can be understanding. In the tyranny of an unreasoning majority, sustained by passion, justice, understanding, and progress are strangled."
"Whatever touches personal freedom touches the foundation of a democracy."
"A true friend laughs at your stories, even when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles, even when they're not so bad."
"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars."
"It is not wonderful that sometimes you misunderstand me. Love itself is but a little gift."
"Love that a man can still be kind and tender and unspoiled after the quality of love has been strained and sullied."
"It is not always the soul that sins. Sometimes ignorance sins, sometimes passion sins, sometimes circumstances, sometimes despair."
"Life is too short to say I love you only when you feel like it."
"Sometimes we dare not venture to say the things our hearts would speak."
"There is no passion in the mind, or it is desperate or scratched by remorse."
"Vanity often makes a man stouter-hearted than men of greater courage."
"The strength of one is the strength of both, and the frailty of one is the frailty of both."
"We love greatly in the poetic and the epic, but it must be in the trivial things of life that the tests of our love are made."
"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."
"Your love is but of sudden growth."
"We should be judged by the strength of our souls and not by the strength of our bodies."
"A man is always greater than the work he accomplishes."
"Not in the loom of the lies of life can it reveal itself; it must be simple, and straight, and pure, or the face of love it cannot mirror."
"Talk as we will, no man has a monopoly of the heart; when he dies, his widow may marry again."
"Love's arms are frailer than the arms of sleep."
"The vital things we do in the world, do them not for others but for ourselves."
"Do not be the judge of woman's ostensible timidity, or of man's ostensible bravery."
"The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart."
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