In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.
I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.
Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.
One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.
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.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
I let Ike run the country and I ran the home.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
