The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
- Topic: Laughter, Success
- Location: Black Sand Beach, Hana, Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.
The secret of success is conviction and persistence.
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.
