Alphabet Quotes

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more

if only they knew they were slaves.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

Management is doing things right;

leadership is doing the right things.

You can’t produce a baby in one month

by getting nine women pregnant.

You have to have a certain amount of

arrogance to be a performer.

The heavens and the earth,

the sun and the moon,

the stars and the planets,

all are in us.

When I have fully decided that a result

is worth getting I go ahead of it and make,

trial after trial until it comes.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life,

but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us

dreamers and indolent...

It is good to begin life poor;

it is good to begin life rich

these are wholesome;

but to begin it prospectively rich!

The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

The process is more important than the outcome.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn

that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy

, working at ten dollars per month)

have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth,

and aristocratic family distinction.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things

you cannot learn any other way.

You’re only as good as your last performance.

The soul is healed by being with children

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.

Remembering that you are going to die is

the best way I know to avoid

the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities

because it is the quality that guarantees all others.

I want to go when I want.

It is tasteless to prolong life artificially.

I have done my share;

it is time to go.

I will do it elegantly.