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.
No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
We need to make sure we're all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society.
Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better.
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Into each life some rain must fall.
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
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.
