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Rayburn, Sam
If you want to get along, go along.
Rand
My
philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own
happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his
noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
Reade,
Charles
Cultivate ease and naturalness. Have all your powers under command. Take possession of yourself, as in this way only can you take possession of your audience. If you are ill at ease, your listeners will be also. Always speak as though there were only one person in the hall whom you had to convince. Plead with him, argue with him, arouse him, touch him, but feel that your audience is one being whose confidence and affection you want to win.
Redmoon, Ambrose
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Renard, Jules
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will be open to you.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain
empties.
Restaino, Joyce, Writer
Roadblocks aren’t barriers—they open your eyes to other routes.
Rice, Berkeley
Visionary
people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't
see.
New York Times Magazine, (March 17, 1968)
Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon (Eddie)
I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through—then follow through."
Great
minds discuss ideas,
Average minds discuss events,
Small minds discuss people.
Riley, Pat, pro basketball coach
Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call fourth its riches.
Roche, James
Success, real success, in any endeavor demands more from an individual than most people are willing to offer—not more than they are capable of offering.
Rockefeller, John D.
I always try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
Rodriguez, Chi Chi, professional golfer
Preparation through steady practice is the only honest avenue to achieving your potential.
Rohn,
Jim
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments
Rommel, Erwin, Field Marshal
Train in time of peace to maintain direction at night with the aid of a luminous dial compass. Train in difficult, trackless, wooded terrain. War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.
Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It
takes just as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
The
only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- (1933 inaugural address)
I have seen war. I have seen
war on land and sea. I have seen
blood running from the wounded . . . I
have seen the dead in the mud. I
have seen cities destroyed . . . I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives.
I hate war.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Get action. Do things; be sane, don't fritter away your time . . . take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
You have got to have courage. I don't care how good a man is, if he is timid, his value is limited. The timid will not amount to very much in this world. I want to see a good man ready to smite with the sword. I want to see him able to hold his own in active life against the forces of evil.
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing that you can do is nothing.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraining enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you've got.
No man is above the law and no man below it.
There
is a homely adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will
go far."
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those scared and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Rothschild, Meyer A.
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
Rotsler, William
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will do well.
Patience
is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Routh, M. J.,
President of Magdalen College Oxford, 1847
You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references.
Ruskin, John
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
Russell,
Bertrand
Don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. . . . No person should be expected to distort the main lines of his life for the sake of another individual. On occasion there may exist such a strong affection that even the greatest sacrifices become natural, but if they are not natural they should not be made, and no person should be held blameworthy for not making them.
William
James used to preach the "will to believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the
"will to
doubt" . . . What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find
out, which is the exact opposite.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
War
does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Ruth,
George Herman ("Babe")
Never
let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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