CL Bennett Quotes

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

Surround yourself with positive people.

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.

The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, 'If you don't like me, screw you.' If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye.

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.

The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.

Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

I've killed lots of Arabs in my life - and there's no problem with that.

We are here to help one another along life's journey.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.