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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the read more
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind read more
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.