Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
Whatever you consistently think about and focus upon you move toward.
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.
The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.
The fears we don’t face become our limits.
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
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