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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.
I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The greatest thing we can possibly gain from this life is the ability to love, and to love greatly.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
Living well is the best revenge.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Everyone smiles in the same language.
Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
What you think you become.
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Time will bring healing.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
