We make all these plans about how things will turn out. But life happens. Plans change. So we doubt. We draw on strength we didn't know we had. We give up any allusions of control. And we deal head on with problems that come our way.
The road to success is always under construction.
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
I didn't say it was going to be easy. I just said it was going to be worth it.
Everybody dies, but not everybody lives.
Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow.
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.