I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Copy Quote View & ShareNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Copy Quote View & ShareEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
Copy Quote View & ShareVision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Copy Quote View & ShareAlways Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
Copy Quote View & ShareCapitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
Copy Quote View & ShareActing is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
Copy Quote View & ShareEvery human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Copy Quote View & ShareBe not afraid of discomfort. If you can't put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You'll never learn.
Copy Quote View & ShareI see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
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