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A successful outcome shows what hard work, perseverance and taking advantage of your opportunities will do for you.
In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.
Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.
Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.
You can change your health, you can change your relationships, you can change your income, you can change anything.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.
If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it.
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
Michael Jordan and Magic and myself, all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.
The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.