All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
- Topic: Courage, Decision, Life, Strength
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For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
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.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.
What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.
Old age is no place for sissies.
If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.
