As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
Interpretation
Our actions shape our destiny, and we have the power to create our own future.
This quote emphasizes the idea that our thoughts and actions directly influence our lives and outcomes. Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that we are not merely passive recipients of fortune; instead, we actively participate in constructing our fate through the choices we make and the actions we take.
In practice
This quote can be used during a motivational speech to inspire individuals to take charge of their lives.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more efficiently and using less resources and less time than the competition?
You should always have a product that has nothing to do with who you are or what people think about you... so that you never start thinking that your product is you, or your fame or your aura.
He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.
It's really annoying for me. That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron's throne or whatever.
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