(112 quotes found)
“There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Self-trust is the first secret of success”
“Our strength grows out of our weaknesses”
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded”
“Be not the slave of your own past ... plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old.”
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”