Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have read more

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

To sit in judgment
of those things which you perceive to be wrong or
imperfect is to be one more read more

To sit in judgment
of those things which you perceive to be wrong or
imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or
imperfection.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

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.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.