I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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All limitations are self-imposed.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
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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.
Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
If people knew how hard worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.
A winner never taught me how to quit.
As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
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.
If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.
