What I ascribed to do, and I did quite well, is every time I came into an adversarial situation, I decided to take control of it so that if a guy came up to me and tried to give me a bad day, I made sure that he was the one who left with the […]
Attitude Quotes
Yes we can.
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
I was determined not to remain poor.
You can fall many times in life, but you’re never a failure as long as you try to get up.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all along my soul is being blown by great winds across the sky.
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. (“Barnaby Rudge”)
