People fall into three categories:
Those who make things happen.
Those who watch things happen.
Those who are left to ask what did
happen.
If you think you can, you can.
If you think you can't, you're right.
Twenty
years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you
didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away
from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover.
The secret
of getting ahead is
getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks, and then
starting on the first one.
There are a thousand excuses for every
failure but never a good reason.
Courage is not absence of fear; it
is control of fear, mastery of fear.
It's not
the size of the dog in the fight, it's
the size of the fight in the dog.
It is curious that physical courage should
be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It ain't
what you don't know that gets you into
trouble. It's what you know for sure
that just ain't so.
The man
who doesn’t read good books has no
advantage over the man who can’t read
them.
Everything human is pathetic. The
secret source of
humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no
humor in heaven.
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