Life Quotes, page 136

“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”

“The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.”

“Choose not to be harmed, and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed, and you haven’t been.”

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”

“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”

“In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.”

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.”

“The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.”

“The road to success is always under construction.”

“Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I don't want to sound like Confucius, but under the sky, under the heaven, man, there is but one family. It just so happens, man, that people are different.”

“To add value to others, one must first value others.”

“Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.”

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

“Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.”

“Men simply don’t think!”

“A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”

“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”

“This is one of the greatest laws in the universe. Fervently do I wish I had discovered it as a very young man. It dawned upon me much later in life, and I found it to be the greatest discovery, if not my greatest discovery outside of my relationship to God.”

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. 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.”

“There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good, it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones, it can lift men to angelship.”

“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”

“Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.”

“Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.”

“You don't get what you want in life. You get what you become.”

“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you'll make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you'll make a fortune.”

“What you have at the moment, you've attracted by the person you've become.”