The past doesn't equal the future.

The past doesn't equal the future.

Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement.
Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to read more

Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement.
Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive
result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your
arms too full to embrace the read more

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your
arms too full to embrace the present.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

If wisdom were offered me with the provision that I should keep it shut
up and refrain from declaring it, read more

If wisdom were offered me with the provision that I should keep it shut
up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in
owning anything unshared.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not
one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage read more

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not
one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on
his ideas, to take a calculated risk-and to act.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.