One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one’s ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
I’d rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.
If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.
You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.
And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
Already I am smiling in anticipation of the good to come.
Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.
The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.
Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?
I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.
I will embrace today’s difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.
I am not a human being, I am a human becoming.
Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.
True happiness lies within you.
Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.
God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can’t solve.