It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.
For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to accomplish the Great Work there must be three love, intelligence, and activity. And yet love is ever the root and the source.
Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever
In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)
A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.
Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.
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