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Nothing
great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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What
lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us.
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To
laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons
and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest
critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self, to leave the
world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a
redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with
enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived--that is to have succeeded.
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Our
greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time
we fail.
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The
world belongs to the energetic.
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It
is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be
stupid with them.
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Nothing
can bring you peace but yourself.
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Discontent
is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
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Five
great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger,
and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should
infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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To
fill the hour, and leave no creavice...that is happiness.
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A
man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and
done his best.
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Unhappy
is the man whom man can make unhappy.
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When
I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the
beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
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For
everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
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Want
is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to
cover.
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You
cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will
be too late.
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The
only gift is a portion of thyself.
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Make
yourself necessary to somebody.
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We
take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and
our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not
be wanting in the best property of all--friends?
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The
only way to have a friend is to be one.
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A
friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may
think aloud.
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A
friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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The
disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
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Self-command
is the main elegance.
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Self-trust
is the first secret of success.
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To
be simple is to be great.
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It
is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest
way.
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Who
loses a day loses life.
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Write
it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Guard
well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them
and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will
become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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He
has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day
surmount a fear.
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A
day is a miniature eternity.
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This
time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do
with it.
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The
present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
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We
can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future;
but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is
today.
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Life
wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
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To
finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the
road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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Health
is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
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If
a man carefully examines his thoughts, he will be surprised to find
how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.
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We
do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a
little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave
action.
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Adopt
the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
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People
only see what they are prepared to see.
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A
man is what he thinks about all day long.
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What
you are comes to you.
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Trust
men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will
show themselves great.
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Skill
to do comes of doing.
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Passion,
though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
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Vigor
is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly
adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
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A
feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses
that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms.
His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
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Where
there is no vision, people perish.
