Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. |
Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-time them. |
Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it. |
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. |
This -- this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape. |
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. |
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. |
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. |
Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity and movement and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds. |
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. |
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. |
What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i |