This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.
There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.
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View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?
When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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.
One day Alice came to fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. His response was a question: “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then, “said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”
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.
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.
The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
A winner never taught me how to quit.
The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.
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.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
