You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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