The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though we can be sure our children will meet people, we must, must create, these days, their chance to meet books.
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The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though we can be sure our children will meet people, we must, must create, these days, their chance to meet books.
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Success without fulfillment is failure.
Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Always be eager to learn, no matter how successful you might already be. In the Millionaires' Club, we sometimes invite a billionaire to come talk to us. He says, 'You're doing okay, but come on. How about if you really poured it on!'
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!
If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got.
Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.
When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.
We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
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