The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Topic: Goals, Purpose
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
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A very little key will open a very heavy door.
If people knew how hard worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
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.
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.
