Quotes about life
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
I believe that anyone can be what they want to be; it just comes down to hard work.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
I think for any relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving communication, appreciation, and understanding.
Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
