We who lived in the concentration camps can remember
the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their
last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer
sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing:
The last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given set
of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a read more
There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.
There is always a way to go if you look for it.
There is always a way to go if you look for it.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than
in any other way.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than
in any other way.
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the
end.
Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the
end.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best
advice, and then going away and doing the read more
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best
advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not
one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage read more
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not
one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on
his ideas, to take a calculated risk-and to act.
