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A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough. 
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. 
Allow yourself a moment of grief when life's misfortunes visit you. However, do not spend your days building a monument in honor of them. 
We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves. 
Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts 
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement. 
The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one 
Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end 
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. 
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. 
The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain 
Celebrate love. It is the breath of your existence and the best of all reasons for living 
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. 
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. 
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. 
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. 
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. 
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. 
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you 
The word aerobics came about when the gym instructors got together and said, 'If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it jumping up and down. 
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on. 
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. 
I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near. 
Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. 
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. 
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. 
The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. 
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. 
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. 
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. 
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him 
The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have kept their ability to dream great dreams. 
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. 
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water. 
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire 
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. 
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. 
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. 
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph 
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. 
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. 
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. 
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. 
Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage. 
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable than teaching? 
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. 
Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God. 
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. Your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. 
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you. 
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. 
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. 
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. 
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer. 
