1,328 quotes found
“Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.”
“Freedom means choosing your burden.”
“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.”
“If you want to succeed you must make your own opportunities as you go.”
“The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
“It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.”
“If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.”
“They have rights who dare defend them.”
“Make good use of bad rubbish.”
“Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline.”
“No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.”
“The brave man carves out his fortune and every man is the sum of his own works.”
“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-tie them.”
“Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.”
“Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.”
“Men at some time are masters of their fates.”
“Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things our own meditation must form our judgement.”
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.”
“He who has no opinion of his own but depends upon the opinion and taste of others is a slave.”
