A.R. Bernard Quotes

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

As God once said, and I think rightly.

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

The measure of love is love without measure.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'