Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton ChekhovRead
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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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