I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to read more

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, read more

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve
other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one
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First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve
other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one
you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is read more

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters read more

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.