If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
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He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
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.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.
Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.
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.
Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
