1,328 quotes found
“The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.”
“If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today I'l...”
“Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.”
“If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.”
“Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth.”
“I don't follow precedent I establish it.”
“Your future depends on many things but mostly on you.”
“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.”
“The wise don't expect to find life worth living they make it that way.”
“I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.”
“To be a man is precisely to be responsible.”
“We are free up to the point of choice then the choice controls the chooser.”
“To be born free is an accident to live free a responsibility to die free is an obligation.”
“Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan but to have any meaning or viability at all a life plan must include intimate relationships.”
“The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life whether the case be one of coolish baked beans or an unrequited affection.”
“For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.”
“No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”
“Women share with men the need for personal success even the taste for power and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates whether husbands children or m...”
“Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say "Well white people kept me back and I can't do this." Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you wan...”
“The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours.”