Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David ThoreauRead
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.
Without football, my life is worth nothing.
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.
A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
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