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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what
one does.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what
one does.
Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.
Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
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.
You can't aim a duck to death.
You can't aim a duck to death.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of
a neighbor.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of
a neighbor.
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible read more
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.