To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
And thence we came forth, to see again the stars.
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The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
There is no education like adversity.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
A winner never taught me how to quit.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.
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.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
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.
When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
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.
A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.
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.
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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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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
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