Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?... He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!
Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.
The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control.
You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
He who laughs most, learns best.
Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.
Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
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