Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive,...
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Jason Mraz
The past has no power over the present moment.
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Eckhart Tolle
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
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Confucius
Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.
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Heath L. Buckmaster
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
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John Lubbock
More Quotes By Calvin Coolidge
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve;...
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only...
Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience...
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
