Quotes about life
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Some of our finest work comes through service to others.
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life.
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
Being alone is very difficult.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over. I've had that happen to me, and I've seen it happen to other people. I find it fascinating.
When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
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