You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.
I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.
For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.
To add value to others, one must first value others.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.
The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.
It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.
No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.
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