Quotes about life
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I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.
I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
I'd like to believe that tomorrow is another challenge for me. I'm sure there is lots more for me to do, because there is lots and lots of stuff still to be explored.
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
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.
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.
Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
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