The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
- Topic: Planning, Possibility, Preparation, Time
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An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.
Impossible is just an opinion.
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
