The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
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.
- Topic: Goals, Purpose, Vision
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Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Action expresses priorities.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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.
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.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
