Famous Quotes About life

The best career advice to give the young is, find out what you like doing best and get someone else to pay you for doing it.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

Dignity and respect has to do with ... your personal power to make a difference by being true to the best within you and letting that truth shine through your words and actions.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, This is the real me, and when you have found that attitude, follow it.