Quotes about life
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
I don't go by or change my attitude based on what people say. At the end of the day, they, too, are judging me from their perspective. I would rather be myself and let people accept me for what I am than be somebody who I am not, just because I want people's approval.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race — racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic — what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
My life is an open book. You're welcome to speculate.
The best education I have ever received was through travel.
In almost every profession — whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business — people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
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.
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
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