Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Quality is everyone's responsibility.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
To be free is to have achieved your life.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
No man is good enough to be another's master.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
Give me love and work - these two only.
I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid.
The reward of Laboure is life. Is that not enough?
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.
How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched hypocrisies.
It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
I can, therefore I am.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
