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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
The greatest thing we can possibly gain from this life is the ability to love, and to love greatly.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
Living well is the best revenge.
Everyone smiles in the same language.
Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.
