“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”
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“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.”
“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”
“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”
“Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.”
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
“When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.”
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.”
“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
“Art is the proper task of life.”
“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”
“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”