One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.
I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
What we do now echoes in eternity.
A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.
Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.
What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Vision without execution is hallucination.
There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
