It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fastest fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible. The kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.