Oct 28, 2004 20:12
"to laugh often and love much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give ones self, to leave the world a bit better, to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultion, to know that even one life breathed easier because you have lived...this is to have succeeded."
-ralph waldo emerson.
"your true character is revealed by the clarity of your convictions, the choices you make, and the promises you keep. hold strongly to your principles and refuse to follow the currents of convenience. what you say and do defines who you are, and who you are...you are forever."
"believe in yourself. you gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. you must do that which you think you cannot do."
-eleanor roosevelt.
"the credit belongs to those people who are actually in the arena. who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions to a worth cause; who at best, know the triumph of high achievement; and also, at worst, fail while daring greatly...so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
-theodore rooselvelt.