Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.
More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.
There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2. 6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and hundreds of thousands of dollars for 'American Idol. ' There will be advertising dollars on the Internet. We're there as well. We win either way.
Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with those others from a position of inferiority or helplessness. Teacher, doctors, social workers, or television producers possess more status than most parents. . . . As a result, the parent today isa maestro trying to conduct an orchestra of players who have never met and who play from a multitude of different scores, each in a notation the conductor cannot read.
All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.