
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
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Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.
Do the difficult things while they are easy, and do the great things while they are small.
Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
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.
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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.
Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
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.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
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.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.
What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?
