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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.
A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.
Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.
Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.
Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.
Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.
What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.
I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.
Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can.
Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.
Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.