Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
- Topic: Appreciation, Fortune
- Location: Lake Mead
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.
A fair character is a fair fortune.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeit of our own behavior—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and teachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.
Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.