The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Kill reverence and you’ve killed the hero in man.
- Topic: Adversity, Hero
- Location: Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.
If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.
No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
